Reading Time in the Long Poem

Reveals how long poems of the long eighteenth century articulate philosophies of time in both content and form Provides a new literary history of the long poem in English in the long eighteenth century, with incisive original readings of the representation of time in three important long poemsArgues for the usefulness of the ‘long poem’ as a critical category that includes genres such as georgic and the prospect poem, as well as epic and romanceDemonstrates a distinctive methodological approach,