Title: Poetry of attention in the eighteenth century
Description: ""Poetry of Attention in the Eighteenth Century" identifies a pervasive cultivation of attention in eighteenth-century poetry. The book argues that a plea from a 1692 ode by William Congreve-"Let me be all, but my attention, dead"-embodies a wider aspiration in the period's poetry to explore overt themes of attention and demonstrate techniques of readerly attention. It historicizes eighteenth-century accounts of attention and pioneers a link between the period's poetry and recent discussions of attention in cognitive psychology. It contributes to the largely neglected history of a psychological trait that has assumed a recent cultural urgency, and it repositions eighteenth-century poems as a collective model for assiduous reading and supple, wide-ranging attention"--
Subjects: Psychology and literature, Cognition in literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology, History and criticism, Literary Discourse analysis, English poetry, Interest (Psychology), LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, History, English poetry, history and criticism, 18th century, Discourse analysis, literary, Englisch, Lyrik, POETRY, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Time periods: 18th century