Reading eighteenth-century poetry / Patricia Meyer Spacks.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

How to live: the moral and the social -- Matters of feeling: poetry of emotion -- The power of detail: description in verse -- High language and low: the diction of poetry -- Alexander Pope and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- How to live: the place of work -- Matters of feeling: forms of the personal -- Structures of energy, structures of leisure: ode and blank verse -- Old poetry, old language: imitation and fraud -- Outliers: Mary Leapor and Christopher Smart -- How to live: poetry and politics -- Matters of feeling: emotion celebrated -- Narrative and reflection -- Poetic languages: diction old and new -- Mary Robinson and William Cowper.