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 94
... clear up only after 1714 , accords with the tentative and exploratory nature of Pope's poems . Yet ' The Arrival of Ulysses ' , if political at all , must be a Jacobite dream of restoration ; Windsor - Forest hopes for a Stuart future ...
... clear up only after 1714 , accords with the tentative and exploratory nature of Pope's poems . Yet ' The Arrival of Ulysses ' , if political at all , must be a Jacobite dream of restoration ; Windsor - Forest hopes for a Stuart future ...
Page 202
... clear to those who remembered Descriptive Sketches and ' Salisbury Plain ? ' Was it autobiographical expression to challenge the whole generation of recanters by affirming the validity of his original hopes in revolu- tionary France ...
... clear to those who remembered Descriptive Sketches and ' Salisbury Plain ? ' Was it autobiographical expression to challenge the whole generation of recanters by affirming the validity of his original hopes in revolu- tionary France ...
Page 235
... clear that Book X of The Prelude has here achieved a new kind of poetry , not now the exhilarating physical and scenic poetry of the boyhood books , with all its political implications for the life to come , but a poetry of current ...
... clear that Book X of The Prelude has here achieved a new kind of poetry , not now the exhilarating physical and scenic poetry of the boyhood books , with all its political implications for the life to come , but a poetry of current ...
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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