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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... Prelude is less a reliable base for biography than a quasi - fictionalized apologia , reading a great deal of the later 1790s back into youth and childhood , I am inclined to suspect — but that is a matter which must be left for future ...
... Prelude is less a reliable base for biography than a quasi - fictionalized apologia , reading a great deal of the later 1790s back into youth and childhood , I am inclined to suspect — but that is a matter which must be left for future ...
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... Prelude of 1805. Perhaps urging Wordsworth towards Cole- ridge's own political judgement , the younger poet had roundly specified ' the complete failure of the French Revolution ' as the occasion to be addressed , and recommended a long ...
... Prelude of 1805. Perhaps urging Wordsworth towards Cole- ridge's own political judgement , the younger poet had roundly specified ' the complete failure of the French Revolution ' as the occasion to be addressed , and recommended a long ...
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... Prelude ' Vallombre ' , dark vale , valley of the shadows , now interacts in the same text with ' Vale of Nightshade ' . Something of the same relation between dark- ness and transcendent sanctity is found in the Grande Chartreuse ...
... Prelude ' Vallombre ' , dark vale , valley of the shadows , now interacts in the same text with ' Vale of Nightshade ' . Something of the same relation between dark- ness and transcendent sanctity is found in the Grande Chartreuse ...
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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