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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	PR555.P85 K64 2012		AVAILABLE

Author	Koehler, Margaret, 1972-
Title	Poetry of attention in the eighteenth century / Margaret Koehler.
OCLC	792880355
ISBN	9781137031129 (hardback)
	1137031123 (hardback)
Publisher	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Description	xii, 263 pages ; 23 cm
LC Subject heading/s	English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
	Psychology and literature -- History -- 18th century.
	Interest (Psychology)
	Cognition in literature.
	Discourse analysis, Literary.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-257) and index.
Summary	""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"-- Provided by publisher.

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