Introduction Part I. Voice: 1. Voice in eighteenth-century poetry 2. The Heroic couplet continuum 3. Vocal engagement: reading Pope's An Essay on Criticism 4. Talking in tetrameter 5. Blank verse and stanzaic poetry Part II. Poetic Consciousness: 6. Satiric poetry 7. Pope as metapoet 8. Metapoetry beyond Pope Part III. Vision: 9. Reading visions 10. Personification 11. Prophecy and prospects of society 12. Ecological prospects and natural knowledge A concluding note: then and now Suggested reading Index.
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