John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health

Download or read book John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health written by John Armstrong and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Budd's critical edition presents John Armstrong's poem The Art of Preserving Health (1744) and other key sources of the eighteenth-century cult of sensibility. It also includes a comprehensive introduction and explanatory notes, clarifying Armstrong's classical, medical, and social references. Readers will come away convinced of the poem's uniquely engaging perspective on the place of literature, medicine, the body, and the book trade in the literary history of sensibility.