Eighteenth-Century British Verse Epistle

BILL OVERTON is Professor of Literary Studies at Loughborough University, UK. His most recent books are The Novel of Female Adultery: Love and Gender in Continental European Fiction 1830-1900 (1996), Fictions of Female Adultery: Theories and Circumtexts 1684-1890 (2002) and A Letter to My Love: Love Poems by Women First Published in the Barbados Gazette, 1731-1737 (2001).

• Preface Acknowledgements Note on References Definition Frequency Familiar and Humorous Discursive Heroic and Amatory Satirical and Complimentary Appendix 1: Verse Epistles in Dryden's Miscellany , Dodsley's and Pearch's Collections and Lonsdale's Anthologies Notes Bibliography Index