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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Dryden to Wordsworth Howard Erskine-Hill. I Dryden's Later Plays and Poems THIS chapter will discuss political allusion and bearing in Dryden's four later dramas after Don Sebastian , especially the neglected later play Love Triumphant ...
Dryden to Wordsworth Howard Erskine-Hill. I Dryden's Later Plays and Poems THIS chapter will discuss political allusion and bearing in Dryden's four later dramas after Don Sebastian , especially the neglected later play Love Triumphant ...
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... play . " By the standards he brings to bear even Shakespeare's final plays would fall . He has no sense of the avowed artificiality of its romance - like , tragicomic , idiom , nor sympathy with Dryden's evident desire to give his last play ...
... play . " By the standards he brings to bear even Shakespeare's final plays would fall . He has no sense of the avowed artificiality of its romance - like , tragicomic , idiom , nor sympathy with Dryden's evident desire to give his last play ...
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... play ' a barefaced allegory ' of the opposition view of England , 42 and suggested that Gustavus might be either Frederick , Prince of Wales , or James III . Yet in the story Brooke has chosen there is no ground for seeing the deliverer ...
... play ' a barefaced allegory ' of the opposition view of England , 42 and suggested that Gustavus might be either Frederick , Prince of Wales , or James III . Yet in the story Brooke has chosen there is no ground for seeing the deliverer ...
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 |
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