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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 20
Page 117
... original the same pattern which had underlain Young's Satires IV and VII : praise at the beginning and end , satire in between . But , as everybody knows , Pope takes the mode of hyperbolic praise ( so ostentatious in Young ) and swells ...
... original the same pattern which had underlain Young's Satires IV and VII : praise at the beginning and end , satire in between . But , as everybody knows , Pope takes the mode of hyperbolic praise ( so ostentatious in Young ) and swells ...
Page 128
... original enquiries resulted only in the information that the author ' was some obscure man ' : those who were in the secret probably felt the need for discretion . Pope's comment ( as reported by Boswell from Reynolds and Richardson the ...
... original enquiries resulted only in the information that the author ' was some obscure man ' : those who were in the secret probably felt the need for discretion . Pope's comment ( as reported by Boswell from Reynolds and Richardson the ...
Page 202
... original hopes in revolu- tionary France ? Or was it , perhaps , to deny what Coleridge had called ' the total failure of the French Revolution ' ? One thing at least is clear , on biographical as on literary grounds : Wordsworth held ...
... original hopes in revolu- tionary France ? Or was it , perhaps , to deny what Coleridge had called ' the total failure of the French Revolution ' ? One thing at least is clear , on biographical as on literary grounds : Wordsworth held ...
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 | |
7 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
affairs allusion Book Britain certainly character Charles clear Coleridge common concern conquest course death drama Dryden earlier early Edward English episode example experience expressed fall final force France French further George give heart hope horse human idea implications important interesting Jacobite James John John Dryden Johnson King land later Letters liberty literary Lives Lock London means Milton mind moral narrative nature never Norton opening opposition original Oxford passage peace perhaps play poem poet poetic poetry political Pope Pope's Prelude present Prince probably published Queen question Rape reader recent restoration revolutionary Samuel Johnson satire scene seems sense September Massacres shows suggested takes thought tion Tories Travelling turn viii vision Walpole Whig Wordsworth writing Young