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 186
... September Massacres . He now uses drama to open up a wider range of opinion , and indeed something of the moral psycho- logy of revolutionary violence . Nobody should be deceived by the Gothic plot and setting of The Borderers ; like ...
... September Massacres . He now uses drama to open up a wider range of opinion , and indeed something of the moral psycho- logy of revolutionary violence . Nobody should be deceived by the Gothic plot and setting of The Borderers ; like ...
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... September Massacres . His diction reminds us of the fédérés as also of the commonwealth of bees : Say more , the swarm That came elate and jocund , like a band Of eastern hunters , to enfold in ring Narrowing itself by moments , and ...
... September Massacres . His diction reminds us of the fédérés as also of the commonwealth of bees : Say more , the swarm That came elate and jocund , like a band Of eastern hunters , to enfold in ring Narrowing itself by moments , and ...
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... September massacres . .. exposed a central truth of the French Revolution : its dependence on organised killing to accomplish political ends . " 61 Biographically speaking it is impossible to consider Wordsworth a simple country youth ...
... September massacres . .. exposed a central truth of the French Revolution : its dependence on organised killing to accomplish political ends . " 61 Biographically speaking it is impossible to consider Wordsworth a simple country youth ...
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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