Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment reconsiders theories of apostrophe and poetic authority to argue that the August
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Table of contents :
Content: Amused and bemused: Shaftesbury's enthusiasm on the social stage --
Eyes that must eclipse: vain enthusiasm in Pope's The rape of the lock --
Curtain, muse!: invention and poetic example in Pope's invocations --
Genius, muse: inspiration and invocation in Fielding's Tom Jones --
The unknown and the unveiled: Anna Barbauld's poetic enthusiasms.