Eighteenth Century English Poetry

Anacreon ancient attack Augustan Age Augustan period blank verse burlesque caesura Chapter classical comedy Cowper criticism definition doctrine of restraint drama Dryden earlier early Eclogues eenth century eighteenth cen eighteenth century eighteenth-century poet Elegy English Poetry epic epigram epilogues epitaph Essay example fable familiar epistle famous formal verse satire frequently Gay's genre georgic Golden Mean Gothic graveyard poem Gray's Greek Anthology heroic couplet heroic epistle Horace Hudibras Hudibrastic hymn iambic iambic pentameter imitation John Johnson Juvenal Juvenalian kind later literary literature lyric major Martialian matter medieval meter Milton mock-heroic modern moral nature neoclassical pastoral personification pieces Pindaric poetic diction Pope Pope's popular prologue-epilogue prologues Rape reader reason reflective-descriptive Renaissance rhyme Romantic rules satire satirist seems sense sensibility seventeenth century song sonnet Spectator stanza street ballad style sublime Swift things Thomas Thomson's tion topographical poem tradition tury Virgil William writers wrote