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 80
... Hearts ' in a state poem of March 1704 , where the wording refers to the famous announcement of her first speech from the throne in Parliament : ' I know my own Heart to be intirely English . . . ' ; a ' Queen of Hearts ' is what a ...
... Hearts ' in a state poem of March 1704 , where the wording refers to the famous announcement of her first speech from the throne in Parliament : ' I know my own Heart to be intirely English . . . ' ; a ' Queen of Hearts ' is what a ...
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... Hearts she turns pale , losing in her face the very hue she sought to retain in the contest . It is her worst moment in the whole game . Again , the card which produces her final but all too brief moment of triumph , ' The King unseen ...
... Hearts she turns pale , losing in her face the very hue she sought to retain in the contest . It is her worst moment in the whole game . Again , the card which produces her final but all too brief moment of triumph , ' The King unseen ...
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... 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 certainly a Queen whose armies ...
... 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 certainly a Queen whose armies ...
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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