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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... readers have been.11 18 TE ii . 199 . 19 Cf. Works ( 1712 ) , i . 107-12 ; ( 1714 ) , iii . 127-30 . 20 See ii . 199 n . 17 . 21 Alexander Pope , Works ( 1717 ) , 148-50 ; TE ii . 199 n . 7 , allows the vigilant reader to reconstruct ...
... readers have been.11 18 TE ii . 199 . 19 Cf. Works ( 1712 ) , i . 107-12 ; ( 1714 ) , iii . 127-30 . 20 See ii . 199 n . 17 . 21 Alexander Pope , Works ( 1717 ) , 148-50 ; TE ii . 199 n . 7 , allows the vigilant reader to reconstruct ...
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... reader's eye down to the abbreviation ' Dryd . ' at the foot of the page . The line remains the same in the Dunciad of 1729 and of 1743 , save that the italicization which indicates an allusion is dropped . It must always have been ...
... reader's eye down to the abbreviation ' Dryd . ' at the foot of the page . The line remains the same in the Dunciad of 1729 and of 1743 , save that the italicization which indicates an allusion is dropped . It must always have been ...
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... reader first sees him ap- proaching the meridian of his power . The English ' full - blown ' and the latinate ' Dignity ' bring together an idea of social advancement and elevation with one of a flower in bloom . Unlike Shakespeare , in ...
... reader first sees him ap- proaching the meridian of his power . The English ' full - blown ' and the latinate ' Dignity ' bring together an idea of social advancement and elevation with one of a flower in bloom . Unlike Shakespeare , in ...
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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