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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... Whig or Tory , ' court ' or ' country ' , than the expounders of Whig stability . " The exceptionally adversarial character of much Augustan satire accords ill with notions of a stable political consensus . ' The recovery of Jacobitism ...
... Whig or Tory , ' court ' or ' country ' , than the expounders of Whig stability . " The exceptionally adversarial character of much Augustan satire accords ill with notions of a stable political consensus . ' The recovery of Jacobitism ...
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... Whig and Tory race ' and that ' To Dulness , Ridpath is as dear as Mist ' ( iii . 283-6 ) , Ridpath being a noted Whig journalist . In the refashioned Dunciad of 1743 these two moments are brought together in Book I , as King Cibber ...
... Whig and Tory race ' and that ' To Dulness , Ridpath is as dear as Mist ' ( iii . 283-6 ) , Ridpath being a noted Whig journalist . In the refashioned Dunciad of 1743 these two moments are brought together in Book I , as King Cibber ...
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... Whig - politics none of the benefits of government could be expected . He could but just endure the opposition to the minister [ Walpole ] because conducted on whig principles ; and I have heard him say , that during the whole course of ...
... Whig - politics none of the benefits of government could be expected . He could but just endure the opposition to the minister [ Walpole ] because conducted on whig principles ; and I have heard him say , that during the whole course of ...
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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