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'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 developing and gaining popular traction in Britain in the period 1760-1790.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781783087723
  • ISBN-10: 1783087722
  • Publisher: Anthem Press
  • Publish Date: April 2018
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.63 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.09 pounds
  • Page Count: 222

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