Description
John, Lord Hervey (1696-1743), 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.
The first ever edition of the collected verse of John, Lord Hervey, an eighteenth-century aristocrat, courtier, politician and poet.
About the Author
Bill Overton (1946-2012) 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.
Reviews
'This substantial and handsomely produced volume both makes a valuable contribution to our knowledge of eighteenth-century English poetry and offers a touching tribute to a distinguished scholar in that field. Bill Overton was Professor of Literary Studies at Loughborough University until his untimely death in 2012.' David Hopkins, The Review of English Studies
Book Information
ISBN 9781107010178
Author John, Lord Hervey
Format Hardback
Page Count 822
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 1280g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 160mm * 48mm
The first ever edition of the collected verse of John, Lord Hervey, an eighteenth-century aristocrat, courtier, politician and poet.
About the Author
Bill Overton (1946-2012) 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.
Reviews
'This substantial and handsomely produced volume both makes a valuable contribution to our knowledge of eighteenth-century English poetry and offers a touching tribute to a distinguished scholar in that field. Bill Overton was Professor of Literary Studies at Loughborough University until his untimely death in 2012.' David Hopkins, The Review of English Studies
Book Information
ISBN 9781107010178
Author John, Lord Hervey
Format Hardback
Page Count 822
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 1280g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 160mm * 48mm
