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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... England and England's surviving evi- dence alone ? In my view the revisionists of the eighteenth century make better sense of the major writers of that era , whether Whig or Tory , ' court ' or ' country ' , than the expounders of Whig ...
... England and England's surviving evi- dence alone ? In my view the revisionists of the eighteenth century make better sense of the major writers of that era , whether Whig or Tory , ' court ' or ' country ' , than the expounders of Whig ...
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... England and Scotland in 1707 the Fleurs - de - Lis on the Royal Arms of England have retreated , as it were , before the Thistle.23 This is also a way of saying that the kingdoms of England and Scotland , united for the first time under ...
... England and Scotland in 1707 the Fleurs - de - Lis on the Royal Arms of England have retreated , as it were , before the Thistle.23 This is also a way of saying that the kingdoms of England and Scotland , united for the first time under ...
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... England from popery and arbitrary govern- ment , it does not support contract between prince and people as the basis of rule , it does not endorse the long European war . Nothing in these poems expresses the political vision which the ...
... England from popery and arbitrary govern- ment , it does not support contract between prince and people as the basis of rule , it does not endorse the long European war . Nothing in these poems expresses the political vision which 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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