Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse

<p>Acknowledgements<br/>Authors ' ' Biographies<br/>Professor Bill Overton, 1946-2012: A Personal Memoir; Hermann Josef Real<br/>Introduction; Allan Ingram and Joanna Fowler<br/>PART I: FORM AND INFLUENCE<br/>Pope ' 's Horatian Voice; Nigel Wood<br/>Celebrating Universal Beauty: Henry Brooke ' 's In-between Poetics; John Baker<br/>Argumentative Emphases in Pope ' 's An Essay on Man; Tom Jones<br/> ' 'Stricken Deer and Digressive Diplomacy ' ': The Influence of Matthew Prior upon William Cowper; Conrad Brunström<br/>PART II: SCIENCE AND NATURE<br/> ' 'When Universal Nature I Survey ' ': Philosophical Poetry Before 1750; Megan Kitching<br/>Metering Mineral Resources: Verse Jewels on Earth ' 's Treasures; Kevin Cope<br/>Deserted Village and Animated Nature: An Ecocritical Approach to Oliver Goldsmith; Brycchan Carey<br/>Footnotes to a Nation: Richard Llwyd ' 's Beaumaris Bay (1800); Elizabeth Edwards<br/>PART III: WOMEN ' 'S VERSE AND GENRES<br/> ' 'I wish the child, I call my own ' ': [Pro]Creative Experience in Eighteenth-Century Poetry; Ashleigh Blackwood<br/>Figs and Fame: Envisioning the Future in Women ' 's Poetry; Mascha Hansen<br/>Women Poets and the Mock-Heroic Elegy; Joanna Fowler<br/>PART IV: SELF AND OTHERS<br/>Getting Personal: Swift ' 's Non-Public Poetry; Allan Ingram<br/>Blind Woman on the Rampage: Priscilla Pointon ' 's Grand Tour of the Midlands and the question of the legitimacy of sources for biography; Chris Mounsey<br/> ' 'What a Creature is Man ' ': The Melancholia, Literary Ambition, and Manly Fortitude of Robert Burns; Leigh Wetherall Dickson<br/>Bibliography <br/>Index</p>