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 69
... present happiness under Anne , Pope quite ignores the link alleged by the Whigs between the Revolution and a happy present . Indeed when the poem speaks explicitly of the period between the execution of Charles I and the accession of ...
... present happiness under Anne , Pope quite ignores the link alleged by the Whigs between the Revolution and a happy present . Indeed when the poem speaks explicitly of the period between the execution of Charles I and the accession of ...
Page 132
... present happy establishment ; each has loyalty taken by Johnson to an absurd extreme . The Vindicator is shut up within the show and comforts of the present moment , and just cannot under- stand why the ' party ' of the opposition ...
... present happy establishment ; each has loyalty taken by Johnson to an absurd extreme . The Vindicator is shut up within the show and comforts of the present moment , and just cannot under- stand why the ' party ' of the opposition ...
Page 254
... Present poetry of political allusion is in no way constrained , embarrassed , or burdened , but wholly enriched and empowered by poetry of the past . Earlier vision lends direction and point to that of the present : For all the world ...
... Present poetry of political allusion is in no way constrained , embarrassed , or burdened , but wholly enriched and empowered by poetry of the past . Earlier vision lends direction and point to that of the present : For all the world ...
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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