Bringing together work by distinguished and younger scholars, Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered takes seriously the connections between poetry and novels in the period between Andrew Marvell"s Upon Appleton House and Amelia Opie"s Romanic-era novels. Contributors also bring a rich range of methodological approaches to the central problem— formalist or historicist, engaging an archive of ephemeral texts, or a complex critical history, or even cognitive poetics.