Restraints on the Impassive Soul: Confinement in English Poetry of the Long Eighteenth Century
Keywords:
Poetry, eighteenth-century, British, confinementSynopsis
This poetry anthology is the product of a third-year university course in English literature (Fall 2024) of the long eighteenth century at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby BC, Canada, located on the traditional and unceded lands of Coast Salish peoples of the Səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.
ISBN: 978-1-77287-130-2
Chapters
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Front cover
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Table of Contents
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Introduction
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Nahum Tate, “The Escape”
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Elizabeth Singer Rowe, “The Expostulation”
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Sarah Fyge Egerton, “The Emulation”
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Sarah Fyge Egerton, "The Fatality"
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Sarah Fyge Egerton, "The Liberty"
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Isaac Watts, “Free Philosophy”
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“Sickness Gives a Sight of Heaven”
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Anne Finch, “Hope”
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Matthew Prior, “Love Disarm’d”
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John Gay, “The Wild Boar and the Ram”
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Mary Barber, “On Seeing the Captives, Lately Redeem’d from Barbary by His Majesty”
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Charlotte Lennox, “The Question”
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Mary Jones, “Matrimony”
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John Hoadly, “On the Friendship of Two Young Ladies”
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James Beattie
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Mary Darwall
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Edward Moore
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Samson Occom, Hymn XI
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Mary Robinson, “The Linnet’s Petition”
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William Cowper, “On a Goldfinch Starved to Death in his Cage”
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Janet Little, “To a Lady, a Patroness of the Muses, on her Recovery from Sickness”
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Eliza Daye, “To Belinda”
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Mary Alcock, “A College Life”
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Anne Hunter, “To the Memory of a Lovely Infant, Written
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Joanna Baillie, “Thoughts Taken from the 93rd Psalm”
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Published
October 6, 2025
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