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The Collected Verse of John, Lord Hervey (16961743)

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By (author): John John Lord Hervey Lord Hervey

John, Lord Hervey (16961743), the confidant of Queen Caroline and antagonist of Alexander Pope, was a government minister, a political pamphleteer and a poet. In his verse writings, collected together for the first time in this edition, he savagely attacks his opponents, including the King and his ministers, as well as Pope, but he also expresses his deepest personal feelings. Hervey was married, with eight children, and his verse conveys his affection for his wife and family members, but his strongest commitment was to his lover, Stephen Fox. Some of his verse is written directly to Fox, but he also explores intense emotional conflicts in Ovidian epistles (which include 'lesbian' poems), in a verse tragedy Agrippina and through his collaborative poetic relationship with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Although his verse was sometimes mocked by contemporaries, he was a fluent and flexible versifier and a master of poetic argument. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 1280g
  • Dimensions: 160 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Nov 2016
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781107010178

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Bill Overton (19462012) was Professor of Literature at Loughborough University. Publicly defining himself as a 'generalist' he published on nineteenth-century European novels on Shakespeare and (increasingly after 1995) on eighteenth-century poetry. This edition of John Lord Hervey's verse was his final work. Elaine Hobby is Professor of Seventeenth-Century Studies at Loughborough University. She has edited midwifery manuals life-writings and religio-political pamphlets and is currently working on an edition of the writings of Aphra Behn for Cambridge University Press. James McLaverty is Emeritus Professor of Textual Criticism at Keele University. Much of his work has focused on Hervey's great antagonist Alexander Pope and he is the co-editor with Paddy Bullard of Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book (Cambridge 2013). He currently serves as one of the General Editors of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift.

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