Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760-90

by John Regan

'Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760-1790' explores the role of poetry in eighteenth-century thinking on human progress. Its central contention is that the textural, verbal characteristics of poetry were a crucial form of response to ideas of human development. That is, the aesthetics of verse - how poetry appeals to the senses as well as to the intellect - constitute inadequately appreciated forms of response to the ideas of progress which were...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783087722
• ISBN13: 9781783087723
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"