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 98
... Walpole which Bolingbroke launched in 1726 with his journal The Craftsman , made an enor- mous difference to Pope and to others of the same sympathy because it was on the face of it loyal to the House of Brunswick . Boling- broke's ...
... Walpole which Bolingbroke launched in 1726 with his journal The Craftsman , made an enor- mous difference to Pope and to others of the same sympathy because it was on the face of it loyal to the House of Brunswick . Boling- broke's ...
Page 142
... Walpole also had a clear view of the policy of France , which , he believed , would never go to war with Britain during the life of Cardinal Fleury , but would do so after the Cardinal's death . " Walpole has been accused of ...
... Walpole also had a clear view of the policy of France , which , he believed , would never go to war with Britain during the life of Cardinal Fleury , but would do so after the Cardinal's death . " Walpole has been accused of ...
Page 143
... Walpole's speech in his own defence as given in William Coxe's Memoirs of the Life of Sir Robert Walpole ( 1798 ) , replete with original documents , differs greatly from the speech given by Johnson . " Johnson gives Walpole an oration ...
... Walpole's speech in his own defence as given in William Coxe's Memoirs of the Life of Sir Robert Walpole ( 1798 ) , replete with original documents , differs greatly from the speech given by Johnson . " Johnson gives Walpole an oration ...
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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