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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... concern'd surprisingly are pleas'd ; And what they wish , see done . Lead to the Temple : Let Thanks be paid ; and Heav'n be prais'd no less For private Union , than for publick Peace . ( v . ii ) 59 The usually perceptive Scott was ...
... concern'd surprisingly are pleas'd ; And what they wish , see done . Lead to the Temple : Let Thanks be paid ; and Heav'n be prais'd no less For private Union , than for publick Peace . ( v . ii ) 59 The usually perceptive Scott was ...
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... concern . The revolution in affairs of state left the author of Windsor - Forest vulnerable ; if treasonable innuendo were to be detected in The Rape of the Lock also , the poet might be much endangered . The tract goes to work , first ...
... concern . The revolution in affairs of state left the author of Windsor - Forest vulnerable ; if treasonable innuendo were to be detected in The Rape of the Lock also , the poet might be much endangered . The tract goes to work , first ...
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... concern with the hap- piness and suffering of the poorest common folk , especially as affected by social oppression , national emergency , and war . The Borderers is exceptionally interesting in its folklore - like reduction of a baron ...
... concern with the hap- piness and suffering of the poorest common folk , especially as affected by social oppression , national emergency , and war . The Borderers is exceptionally interesting in its folklore - like reduction of a baron ...
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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