Publisher's Synopsis
The Eighteenth-century Which emerges in Dr. Bergstrom's book is a fascinating and intellectually fertile time, one quite different from that which we know from the standard literary histories. By looking at the lyric in the way he does, and using so many figures who have been long interredin literary and critical graveyards, Dr. Bergstrom opens up the whole period, giving us a literary history which will make us think anew about how the eighteenth century relates to the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries.
