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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... death can write in this buoyant way of a new age , but Momus , the laughing sceptical god , does not speak wholly for Dryden , and the turn of the century produced small political and poetical change . Doubtless it is the residual magic ...
... death can write in this buoyant way of a new age , but Momus , the laughing sceptical god , does not speak wholly for Dryden , and the turn of the century produced small political and poetical change . Doubtless it is the residual magic ...
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... death on the battlefield into the society beauty's prospect of an afterlife of marriage , age , and death . It adds a sombre tone to what had hitherto been a poem of wit , beauty , and high spirits , and we remember that the ' Episode ...
... death on the battlefield into the society beauty's prospect of an afterlife of marriage , age , and death . It adds a sombre tone to what had hitherto been a poem of wit , beauty , and high spirits , and we remember that the ' Episode ...
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... death . The parallel works well for the mock - epic . Belinda in her fashionable world is linked with a heroine and a queen injured through love and treated as a sacrifice . The Baron is briefly a mock - Aeneas , going off with the lock ...
... death . The parallel works well for the mock - epic . Belinda in her fashionable world is linked with a heroine and a queen injured through love and treated as a sacrifice . The Baron is briefly a mock - Aeneas , going off with the lock ...
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 |
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