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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... means by which wealth , power , and advancement could be gained , at the national , local , and personal levels . Further , dynasticism , with its focus on a series of specific families , was the human face of politics , in recogni ...
... means by which wealth , power , and advancement could be gained , at the national , local , and personal levels . Further , dynasticism , with its focus on a series of specific families , was the human face of politics , in recogni ...
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... mean that frame of mind which existed when , according to the standards of the time , a Stuart restoration continued ... means , if more remote yet still with some sustain- ing structures and powers , of understanding fall , loss , and ...
... mean that frame of mind which existed when , according to the standards of the time , a Stuart restoration continued ... means , if more remote yet still with some sustain- ing structures and powers , of understanding fall , loss , and ...
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... means bad satire , and the sixth line anticipates the idiom of Pope in the 1730s . Next Young touches on charity and economic distress : He glories in late times to be convey'd , Not for the poor he has reliev'd , but made : Not such ...
... means bad satire , and the sixth line anticipates the idiom of Pope in the 1730s . Next Young touches on charity and economic distress : He glories in late times to be convey'd , Not for the poor he has reliev'd , but made : Not such ...
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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