Table of Contents

Introduction: 'Let me be all, but my attention, dead' History and Theory of Attention in the Eighteenth Century The Filter of Attention and Indissoluble Attractors in Eighteenth-Century Mock-Heroic Poetry Multiple Sensory Modalities of Attention Landscape Poetry I: The Discovery of Receptivity Landscape Poetry II: The Practice of Receptivity Cowper's Task of Attention Odes of Absorption 'Attention is everywhere'