Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Progress by Prescription
- 2 Thomas Sheridan and the Divine Harmony of Progress
- 3 ‘There Is a Natural Propensity in the Human Mind to Apply Number and Measure to Every Thing We Hear’: Monboddo, Steele and Prosody as Rhythm
- 4 ‘[C]ut into, distorted, twisted’: Thomas Percy, Editing and the Idea of Progress
- 5 ‘Manners’ and ‘Marked Prosody’: Hugh Blair and Henry Home, Lord Kames
- Afterword: Rude Manners, ‘Stately’ Measures: Byron and the Idea of Progress in the New Century
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Progress by Prescription
- 2 Thomas Sheridan and the Divine Harmony of Progress
- 3 ‘There Is a Natural Propensity in the Human Mind to Apply Number and Measure to Every Thing We Hear’: Monboddo, Steele and Prosody as Rhythm
- 4 ‘[C]ut into, distorted, twisted’: Thomas Percy, Editing and the Idea of Progress
- 5 ‘Manners’ and ‘Marked Prosody’: Hugh Blair and Henry Home, Lord Kames
- Afterword: Rude Manners, ‘Stately’ Measures: Byron and the Idea of Progress in the New Century
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760 , pp. 203 - 211Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2018