English Poets Of The Eighteenth Century

By Ernest Bernbaum

Book Overview

A hush falls over Georgian streets when a single verse reveals a nation's mind. English Poets Of The Eighteenth Century returns that voice to modern shelves, urging fresh readers to listen again to the quarrels and consolations of neoclassical poetry. Ernest Bernbaum's lucid exploration connects form and idea with insight, tracing the rhythms, moral texture, and social wit that define eighteenth-century britain. From poise and satire to the quiet ache of reflection, the book illuminates how poets framed public virtue and private feeling, how genres and modes-satire, pastoral, heroic couplet-shaped a culture's debates. It offers a compact, rigorous guide to poetry form, craft, and themes, while placing works in their historical centre of gravity-without drying them of colour or relevance. Students and lovers of literature alike will find a clear through-line from Samuel Johnson's criticism to broader debates about taste, morality, and national identity. This edition matters for its own moment: a restoration for today's and future generations, more than a reprint-indeed a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, it bridges scholarship and accessible reading, inviting casual readers and classic-literature collectors to a shared conversation about how poetry can still shape our sense of self, society, and time. Includes keen observations on eighteenth century criticism and the poetry of Georgian England in a way that feels immediate and essential.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9354841791
• ISBN13: 9789354841798
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"