Hardback. 609pp. Includes chapters on John Milton, Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Hobbes, Katherine Philips, Lucy Hutchinson, John Bunyan, Aphra Behn, John Dryden, William Congreve, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, Daniel Defoe, Eliza Heywood, James Thomson, Stephen Duck, Mark Akenside, William Collins, Sasmuel Richardson, Samuel Johnson, Henry Fielding, Thomas Gray, Christopher Smrt, Lawrence Sterne, Jamse Macpherson, Henry Mackenzie, James Boswell, William Blake as well as separate chapters on political writing,Historical writing, religious writing, philosophical writing, women writers, war and politics, forgery and plagiarism, the book trade etc.
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