Introduction: Christine Gerrard )Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University( Part I: Contexts an d Perspectives: 1. Poetry, Politics an d the Rise of Party: Christine Gerrard )Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University( 2. Poetry, Politics, an d Empire: Suvir Kaul )University of Pennsylvania( 3. Poetry an d Science: Clark Lawlor )University of Northumbria at Newcastle( 4. Poetry an d Religion: Emma Mason )University of Warwick( 5. Poetic Enthusiasm: John D. Morillo )North Carolina State University( 6. Poetry an d the Visual Arts: Robert Jones )University of Leeds( 7. Poetry, Popular Culture, an d the Literary Marketplace: George Justice )University of Missouri-Columbia( 8. Women Poets an d their Writing in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Charlotte Grant )formerly Senior Research Fellow at the AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior( 9. Poetry, Sentiment, an d Sensibility: Jennifer Keith )University of North Carolina at Greensboro( Part II: Readings: 10. John Gay, The Shepherd's Week: Mina Gorji )Magdalen College, Oxford University( 11. Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock an d "Eloisa to Abelard": Valerie Rumbold )University of Birmingham( 12. Jonathan Swift, The "Stella" Poems: Ros Ballaster )Mansfield College, Oxford( 13. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Six Town Eclogues an d Other Poems: Isobel Grundy )University of Alberta, Canada( 14. James Thomson, The Seasons: Christine Gerrard )Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University( 15. Stephen Duck, The Thresher's Labour, an d Mary Collier, The Woman's Labour: John Goodridge )Nottingham Trent University( 16. Mary Leapor, "Crumble-Hall": David Fairer )University of Leeds( 17. Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination: Adam Rounce )Keele University( 18. Samuel Johnson, London an d The Vanity of Human Wishes: David F. Venturo )College of New Jersey( 19. William Collins, "Ode on the Poetical Character": John Sitter )University of Notre Dame( 20. Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard: Suvir Kaul )University of Pennsylvania( 21. Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno: Chris Mounsey )University of Winchester( 22. Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, an d George Crabbe, The Village: Caryn Chaden )DePaul University( 23. William Cowper, The Task: Freya Johnston )University of Warwick( 24. Robert Burns, "Tam o' Shanter": Murray Pittock )Manchester University( Part III: Forms an d Genres: 25. Rhyming Couplets an d Blank Verse: Richard Bradford )University of Ulster, Coleraine( 26. Epic an d Mock-Heroic: Richard Terry )University of Sunderland( 27. Verse Satire: Brean Hammond )University of Nottingham( 28. The Ode: Margaret M. Koehler )Otterbein College( 29. The Georgic: Juan Christian Pellicer )University of Oslo( 30. The Verse Epistle: Bill Overton )Loughborough University( Part IV: Themes an d Debates: 31. The Constructions of Femininity: Kathryn R. King )University of Monteva llo, Alabama( 32. Whig an d Tory Poetics: Abigail Williams )St Peter's College, Oxford University( 33. The Classical Inheritance: David Hopkins )Universit.