Poetry of Opposition and Revolution: Dryden to WordsworthClarendon Press, 1996 - 272 pages This is a major study of the relation between poetry and politics from the 1688 Revolution to the early years of the nineteenth century, focusing in particular on the works of Dryden, Pope, Johnson, and Wordsworth. Building on his argument in Poetry and the Realm of Politics: Shakespeare to Dryden (also available from OUP), Erskine-Hill argues that the major tradition of political allusion is not, as has often been argued, that of political allegory and overtly political poems, but rather a more shifting and less systematic practice, often involving equivocal or multiple reference. |
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Page 117
... Britain's earlier military glory : ' Edward and Henry , now the Boast of Fame ' ( 1. 8 ) , ' We conquer'd France ... ' ( l . 263 ) , ' Old Edward's Armour beams on Cibber's breast ! ' ( l . 319 ) , 14 and this keeps the reader in mind ...
... Britain's earlier military glory : ' Edward and Henry , now the Boast of Fame ' ( 1. 8 ) , ' We conquer'd France ... ' ( l . 263 ) , ' Old Edward's Armour beams on Cibber's breast ! ' ( l . 319 ) , 14 and this keeps the reader in mind ...
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... Britain's warlike past , are present to convey a deeper anxiety : that Britain , sunk into self - interest and inertia , is losing its capacity for effective public action . Linked with London's concern about action and inertia is a ...
... Britain's warlike past , are present to convey a deeper anxiety : that Britain , sunk into self - interest and inertia , is losing its capacity for effective public action . Linked with London's concern about action and inertia is a ...
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... Britain be no attempt to interfere with the revolutionary regime . On this basis the hitherto neutral Britain went to war with the new republic . And this was the occasion of Wordsworth's first using the word ' revolution ' in The ...
... Britain be no attempt to interfere with the revolutionary regime . On this basis the hitherto neutral Britain went to war with the new republic . And this was the occasion of Wordsworth's first using the word ' revolution ' in The ...
Contents
Drydens Later Plays and Poems | 17 |
Early Poems to The Rape of the Locke | 57 |
The Rape of the Lock to The Dunciad | 77 |
Copyright | |
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