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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... fall were complex . 16 Johnson's account of the debate on the motion to remove Wal- pole , in the Gentleman's ... Fall of Orgilio : Samuel Johnson as Parliamentary Reporter ' , in Isobel Grundy ( ed . ) , Samuel Johnson : New Critical ...
... fall were complex . 16 Johnson's account of the debate on the motion to remove Wal- pole , in the Gentleman's ... Fall of Orgilio : Samuel Johnson as Parliamentary Reporter ' , in Isobel Grundy ( ed . ) , Samuel Johnson : New Critical ...
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... fall of Walpole in the parliamentary debates . Nothing is allowed to interrupt Johnson's narrative of Wolsey's power , ambition , and fall , not Juvenal's insistent questions about whether the reader shares the desires of Sejanus , nor ...
... fall of Walpole in the parliamentary debates . Nothing is allowed to interrupt Johnson's narrative of Wolsey's power , ambition , and fall , not Juvenal's insistent questions about whether the reader shares the desires of Sejanus , nor ...
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... fall ; And Universal Darkness buries All . ( The Dunciad ( 1743 ) , iv . 635-6 , 653-6 ) Much turns here on Pope's use of the present tense . Visions of the end are conventionally in the future tense . Thus Dryden's ' So when the last ...
... fall ; And Universal Darkness buries All . ( The Dunciad ( 1743 ) , iv . 635-6 , 653-6 ) Much turns here on Pope's use of the present tense . Visions of the end are conventionally in the future tense . Thus Dryden's ' So when the last ...
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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