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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... further , and wider , continental war : the War of the Spanish Succession . Nothing could more strongly attest to the fact that this continued to be a dynastic era . Dynasticism was the means by which wealth , power , and advancement ...
... further , and wider , continental war : the War of the Spanish Succession . Nothing could more strongly attest to the fact that this continued to be a dynastic era . Dynasticism was the means by which wealth , power , and advancement ...
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... further till it tips over into irony . What is more Pope brings off this ironic coup with the help of a political implication . Young's serious peace poem in Satire VII is answered by Pope's praise of an Augustus who opens ' all the ...
... further till it tips over into irony . What is more Pope brings off this ironic coup with the help of a political implication . Young's serious peace poem in Satire VII is answered by Pope's praise of an Augustus who opens ' all the ...
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... Further particular reference ought not to be insisted on , though the aristocratic Talleyrand , so ostracized in London when on his repub- lican mission there in 1792 , now affords a good example of the ' knave ' . ' The paramount ace ...
... Further particular reference ought not to be insisted on , though the aristocratic Talleyrand , so ostracized in London when on his repub- lican mission there in 1792 , now affords a good example of the ' knave ' . ' The paramount ace ...
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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