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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... final stanza of the five he is fired with the desire for a destructive revenge . In the central stanza he is moved to lament his fallen foe in easy emotion ; here , in this royalist ode , Dryden gives his equivalent of the executed king ...
... final stanza of the five he is fired with the desire for a destructive revenge . In the central stanza he is moved to lament his fallen foe in easy emotion ; here , in this royalist ode , Dryden gives his equivalent of the executed king ...
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... final growth of The Prelude , is notable for its evolution from the boyhood books , and for its artistry of reprise in which motifs from earlier in the poem are repeated with altered and added significance . After a long , leisurely ...
... final growth of The Prelude , is notable for its evolution from the boyhood books , and for its artistry of reprise in which motifs from earlier in the poem are repeated with altered and added significance . After a long , leisurely ...
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... final negative . Yet this entranced and entrancing line also seems to have an analogue , deep in the early Christian poetic tradition : tristia squalentis aethrae palluerunt sidera , strengthened , three lines later in the same hymn of ...
... final negative . Yet this entranced and entrancing line also seems to have an analogue , deep in the early Christian poetic tradition : tristia squalentis aethrae palluerunt sidera , strengthened , three lines later in the same hymn 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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