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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... earlier phase of the French Revolution , was always insisted on . To a surprising degree recent critical commentary identi- fied itself with the early Jacobin phase of the earlier Romantics . Difficulties at once began to appear . If it ...
... earlier phase of the French Revolution , was always insisted on . To a surprising degree recent critical commentary identi- fied itself with the early Jacobin phase of the earlier Romantics . Difficulties at once began to appear . If it ...
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... earlier times as those times saw them- selves , and thus a better if dauntingly detailed ground for the present project . On the later seventeenth and the earlier eighteenth cen- turies , therefore , I have followed the more recent ...
... earlier times as those times saw them- selves , and thus a better if dauntingly detailed ground for the present project . On the later seventeenth and the earlier eighteenth cen- turies , therefore , I have followed the more recent ...
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... earlier eighteenth - century political consciousness . This will be a theme in the first half of the present book . It is no surprise that literary discussion of the earlier Romantics should have so regularly stressed the idealism of ...
... earlier eighteenth - century political consciousness . This will be a theme in the first half of the present book . It is no surprise that literary discussion of the earlier Romantics should have so regularly stressed the idealism 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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