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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... narrative , thinking , perhaps , that only thus might he do justice to the complexity of his political experience . And this narrative he did not intend to publish until the distant future . It was , however , read to Coleridge ; on 4 ...
... narrative , thinking , perhaps , that only thus might he do justice to the complexity of his political experience . And this narrative he did not intend to publish until the distant future . It was , however , read to Coleridge ; on 4 ...
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... narrative needs both the Soane and Rhone , and does not hesitate to transcend credible travel narrative.33 Travel narrative is merely the idiom of the passage - its baseline - while interspersed , sparingly but tellingly , is the ...
... narrative needs both the Soane and Rhone , and does not hesitate to transcend credible travel narrative.33 Travel narrative is merely the idiom of the passage - its baseline - while interspersed , sparingly but tellingly , is the ...
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... narrative , full of practical detail , the mountain inn , the prompt departure of the other travellers , the wrong choice of the track that led over ' a lofty mountain ' ( vi . 506 ) , the discovery of the mistake , and the anticli ...
... narrative , full of practical detail , the mountain inn , the prompt departure of the other travellers , the wrong choice of the track that led over ' a lofty mountain ' ( vi . 506 ) , the discovery of the mistake , and the anticli ...
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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