Miscellanies
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Poetic miscellanies represent a particularly important and popular mediation of poetry in the eighteenth century, since they represent one of the most visible points of contact between the shaping of the literary canon, and the commercial demands of print culture. Yet they remain little used or studied because of their bewildering number and variety: at the most conservative estimate, there were a thousand published between 1700-1800, yet the contents of most of these are relatively unknown and unexamined. In this collection, you will be able to learn more about and explore some miscellanies from the time.
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| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smallpox in poetry | Smallpox was rife in the eighteenth century, leaving its mark both on its sufferers, and on the… | Elizabeth Atkinson |
| 2 | The poetry of war | Explores the aesthetics and impact of war poetry in the early eighteenth century, focussing on… | Abigail Williams |
| 3 | The Ladle: a comic poem | Matthew Prior's The Ladle was one of the most popular poems of the eighteenth century. This podcast… | Louise Curran |
| 4 | Music in miscellanies | Much popular music of the eighteenth century is found in poetic miscellanies. But how was it… | Giles Lewin |
| 5 | Pastoral Poetry | Introduces the poetry of rural life, and its debt to classical sources. | Kathleen Lawton-Trask |
| 6 | Politics in poetry | This podcast explores the culture of Jacobitism in the eighteenth century, using a popular ballad | John McTague |
| 7 | The life of epigrams | This podcasts introduces the popular eighteenth century epigram | Dianne Mitchell |
| 8 | Petticoats and fashion | An introduction to the world of fashion and the politics of the petticoat, seen through the poetry… | Elizabeth Atkinson |
| 9 | Wit and mirth; or pills to purge melancholy | Wit and mirth; or pills to purge melancholy; : being a collection of the best merry ballads and… | |
| 10 | A Collection of Poems in Six volumes by Several Hands | Edited by Robert Dodsley. Combination of 1st ed (1958) and 2nd ed (1966). |