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 52
... never travelled abroad and , learned as he was in the Latin and Greek classics , his literary output was largely shaped by the English and French poetry of the high Renaissance and Baroque . This meant in practice that Dryden was open ...
... never travelled abroad and , learned as he was in the Latin and Greek classics , his literary output was largely shaped by the English and French poetry of the high Renaissance and Baroque . This meant in practice that Dryden was open ...
Page 142
... never go to war with Britain during the life of Cardinal Fleury , but would do so after the Cardinal's death . " Walpole has been accused of exaggerating the Jacobite threat in order to prolong his own power , but it must be said that ...
... never go to war with Britain during the life of Cardinal Fleury , but would do so after the Cardinal's death . " Walpole has been accused of exaggerating the Jacobite threat in order to prolong his own power , but it must be said that ...
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... never ceded to any sovereign power whatever a right to dispose of either without their consent . " While this resolution stands alone , the Americans are free from singularity of opinion ; their wit has not yet betrayed them to heresy ...
... never ceded to any sovereign power whatever a right to dispose of either without their consent . " While this resolution stands alone , the Americans are free from singularity of opinion ; their wit has not yet betrayed them to heresy ...
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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