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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... Rape of the Lock was not only one in which conquest , resistance , and the Peace were the great controver- sial ... Rape of the Locke ( composed by September 1711 , published 20 May 1712 ) . However in debt to recent French and English ...
... Rape of the Lock was not only one in which conquest , resistance , and the Peace were the great controver- sial ... Rape of the Locke ( composed by September 1711 , published 20 May 1712 ) . However in debt to recent French and English ...
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... ( Rape , ii . 182 ) . The two poems reflect back and forth from one to another : their initial proximity suggests the political dimension of The Rape of the Locke.49 48 Ibid . 136 . 49 The nature of Pope's earliest publications has been ...
... ( Rape , ii . 182 ) . The two poems reflect back and forth from one to another : their initial proximity suggests the political dimension of The Rape of the Locke.49 48 Ibid . 136 . 49 The nature of Pope's earliest publications has been ...
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... rape . What makes the 1714 poem very much not a Whig poem is that neither card - game nor rape is presented as a vision of deliverance . To the Jacobite , and to the Tory who so often shared a Jacobite vision even when he did not take ...
... rape . What makes the 1714 poem very much not a Whig poem is that neither card - game nor rape is presented as a vision of deliverance . To the Jacobite , and to the Tory who so often shared a Jacobite vision even when he did not take ...
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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