The epistolary moment : the poetics of the eighteenth-century verse epistle / William C. Dowling
1991. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #443830
ISBN: 0691068917
Physical description: 229 pages, 24 cm. Contents: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION. SOCIOPOETICS AND THE PROBLEM OF AUDIENCE -- ONE. Lyric and Epistle -- TWO. AUGUSTAN AUDIENCE -- THREE. SATIRE AND EPISTLE -- FOUR. The Commonwealth of Letters -- FIVE. The Empire of Chaos -- NOTES -- POEMS CITED -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX. Subjects: English poetry 18th century History and criticism. Epistolary poetry, English History and criticism. Poetics History 18th century.
Price: €14.95