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 82
... expressed by both Spades and Hearts . Anne as Queen of Hearts is a similarly ambiguous figure , non semper eadem . One side of her face might be expressed by the ' warlike Amazon ' who fights for the Baron ( iii . 67 ) , for she was ...
... expressed by both Spades and Hearts . Anne as Queen of Hearts is a similarly ambiguous figure , non semper eadem . One side of her face might be expressed by the ' warlike Amazon ' who fights for the Baron ( iii . 67 ) , for she was ...
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... expressed in Gustavus Vasa and its Preface . Voltaire had praised Gustavus Vasa and shown him as 43 ' Verses pasted on the Gates of M. Puissieux ' , A Satyr : in French and English ... ( Paris , 1749 ) , 6-7 . See David Foxon , Sect ...
... expressed in Gustavus Vasa and its Preface . Voltaire had praised Gustavus Vasa and shown him as 43 ' Verses pasted on the Gates of M. Puissieux ' , A Satyr : in French and English ... ( Paris , 1749 ) , 6-7 . See David Foxon , Sect ...
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... expression in physical action in the earlier Pre- lude . Yet the great social change here welcomed is seen as both something to be striven for , and as an ... expressed here has something of the tragic irony EXPERIENCING REVOLUTION 227.
... expression in physical action in the earlier Pre- lude . Yet the great social change here welcomed is seen as both something to be striven for , and as an ... expressed here has something of the tragic irony EXPERIENCING REVOLUTION 227.
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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