Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century

by Margaret Koehler

Book Overview

Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century identifies a pervasive cultivation of attention in eighteenth-century poetry. The book argues that a plea from a 1692 ode by William Congreve-'Let me be all, but my attention, dead'-embodies a wider aspiration in the period's poetry to explore overt themes of attention and demonstrate techniques of readerly attention. It historicizes eighteenth-century accounts of attention and pioneers a link between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137031123
• ISBN13: 9781137031129
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"