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 127
... Horse shall drain , Nor shall the passive Coward once complain . ( ll . 1-3 , 15-26 ) 35 Like the card - game in Pope's Rape of the Lock this poem is designed to recall through cryptic and compressed allusion a series of crises in high ...
... Horse shall drain , Nor shall the passive Coward once complain . ( ll . 1-3 , 15-26 ) 35 Like the card - game in Pope's Rape of the Lock this poem is designed to recall through cryptic and compressed allusion a series of crises in high ...
Page 170
... horses , recognized in Gulliver's Travels , Book IV , that horses were both sources of energy and subjects of obedience — and provocative- ly endowed them with secular wisdom too . For centuries human society had relied on the horse . The ...
... horses , recognized in Gulliver's Travels , Book IV , that horses were both sources of energy and subjects of obedience — and provocative- ly endowed them with secular wisdom too . For centuries human society had relied on the horse . The ...
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... horse , the first in The Prelude , beautifully strikes the mean between untrained and subordinate : I wheeled about Proud and exulting , like an untired horse That cares not for its home . ( i . 155-7 ) 53 The pride and freedom of the ...
... horse , the first in The Prelude , beautifully strikes the mean between untrained and subordinate : I wheeled about Proud and exulting , like an untired horse That cares not for its home . ( i . 155-7 ) 53 The pride and freedom of the ...
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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