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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... Nature , in the song of the wren , seems to fulfil the vocation desecrated by history . It transcends the impetuous ... natural spirit of overthrow and survival , licensing iconoclasm within a larger reverence . Part II of the 1799 ...
... Nature , in the song of the wren , seems to fulfil the vocation desecrated by history . It transcends the impetuous ... natural spirit of overthrow and survival , licensing iconoclasm within a larger reverence . Part II of the 1799 ...
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... nature , but retain A more than Roman confidence , a faith That fails not , in all sorrow my support , The blessing of my life , the gift is yours Ye mountains , thine O Nature . ( ii . 473-92 ) 78 The argument of this passage , and ...
... nature , but retain A more than Roman confidence , a faith That fails not , in all sorrow my support , The blessing of my life , the gift is yours Ye mountains , thine O Nature . ( ii . 473-92 ) 78 The argument of this passage , and ...
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... nature of the work requires , to the subtle relation- ship it proposes between public , personal , and physical life , between history and nature . I Readers of the 1799 Prelude find much in common with Books I and II of the 1805 poem ...
... nature of the work requires , to the subtle relation- ship it proposes between public , personal , and physical life , between history and nature . I Readers of the 1799 Prelude find much in common with Books I and II of the 1805 poem ...
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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