Abstract
My analysis of attention as a central theme and technique in eighteenth- century poetry has prompted me to complicate and refine certain historical and generic boundaries within eighteenth-century poetry—as with mock-heroic in the previous chapter. Indeed, to name attention as a unifying concept in the period’s poetry is not only to reconfigure evolutions within this body of work but to uncover a new coherence across eighteenth-century poetry. Another poetic genre characteristic of the eighteenth century—the ode—emerges differently when examined through the lens of attention. Its two ostensibly dissimilar phases are revealed to have more in common than has been acknowledged, and particular patterns of attention turn out to define the eighteenth-century ode as a form.
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