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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... James II , 87 as by Elizabeth I. Hickes himself had recently recalled the precedent and those who opposed it , in ... James II in 1693 and consecrated on 24 February 1694. There can be little doubt that Hickes's polemic lies behind this ...
... James II , 87 as by Elizabeth I. Hickes himself had recently recalled the precedent and those who opposed it , in ... James II in 1693 and consecrated on 24 February 1694. There can be little doubt that Hickes's polemic lies behind this ...
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... James II , his Queen , Mary of Modena , and their male heir the infant Prince James . Two momentous partings seem likely to have been in Dryden's mind : the first when , as James faced the incoming forces of William , he secretly sent ...
... James II , his Queen , Mary of Modena , and their male heir the infant Prince James . Two momentous partings seem likely to have been in Dryden's mind : the first when , as James faced the incoming forces of William , he secretly sent ...
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... James III in 1736 as a suitable person to conduct a journal in England supporting the Jacobite interest . In 1737 James was informed that the new paper was about to start , and that Pope ( provided his contributions remained anonymous ) ...
... James III in 1736 as a suitable person to conduct a journal in England supporting the Jacobite interest . In 1737 James was informed that the new paper was about to start , and that Pope ( provided his contributions remained anonymous ) ...
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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