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Intro -- A COMPANION TO EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POETRY -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I Contexts and Perspectives -- 1 Poetry, Politics, and the Rise of Party -- 2 Poetry, Politics, and Empire -- 3 Poetry and Science -- 4 Poetry and Religion -- 5 Poetic Enthusiasm -- 6 Poetry and the Visual Arts -- 7 Poetry, Popular Culture, and the Literary Marketplace -- 8 Women Poets and Their Writing in Eighteenth-Century Britain -- 9 Poetry, Sentiment, and Sensibility -- PART II Readings -- 10 John Gay, The Shepherd's Week -- 11 Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock and "Eloisa to Abelard" -- 12 Jonathan Swift, the "Stella" Poems -- 13 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Six Town Eclogues and Other Poems -- 14 James Thomson, The Seasons -- 15 Stephen Duck, The Thresher's Labour, and Mary Collier, The Woman's Labour -- 16 Mary Leapor, "Crumble-Hall" -- 17 Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination -- 18 Samuel Johnson, London and The Vanity of Human Wishes -- 19 William Collins, "Ode on the Poetical Character" -- 20 Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard -- 21 Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno -- 22 Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, and George Crabbe, The Village -- 23 William Cowper, The Task -- 24 Robert Burns, "Tam o' Shanter" -- PART III Forms and Genres -- 25 Rhyming Couplets and Blank Verse -- 26 Epic and Mock-Heroic -- 27 Verse Satire -- 28 The Ode -- 29 The Georgic -- 30 The Verse Epistle -- PART IV Themes and Debates -- 31 The Constructions of Femininity -- 32 Whig and Tory Poetics -- 33 The Classical Inheritance -- 34 Augustanism and Pre-Romanticism -- 35 Recovering the Past: Shakespeare, Spenser, and British Poetic Tradition -- 36 The Pleasures and Perils of the Imagination -- 37 The Sublime -- 38 Poetry and the City -- 39 Cartography and the Poetry of Place.
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