The Oxford book of eighteenth century verse

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Roger Lonsdale notes in his influential anthology, The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse (): One of the most interesting poets [from this period] is the ubiquitous Anonymous, whose voice almost never registers in conventional literary history.

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It grew rapidly from when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris. InGeorge Fox, the founder of Quakerism, wrote a whole book labeling anyone who used singular you an idiot or a fool.

And eighteenth-century grammarians like Robert Lowth and Lindley Murray regularly tested students on thou as singular, you as plural, despite the fact that students used singular you when their teachers werent looking. The most important changes occurred in the eighteenth century.

In Dr. Thomas Paris published an extensive revision at Cambridge. In Dr. Benjamin Blayney, after about four years of work, brought out another at Oxford.

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