The Epistolary Moment: The Poetics of the Eighteenth-Century Verse Epistle

The eighteenth-century verse epistle, argues William Dowling, was an attempt to solve in literary terms the dilemma of solipsism as raised by Locke and Hume. The focus of The Epistolary Moment is on internal audience in poetry–the audience inside the poem, created by its discourse and belonging to its world–as this divides in epistolary poetry