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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... Revolutionary commitment for deeper , a - political verities , it would follow , as Jerome McGann has argued , that their new , a - political stance was no more than a concealed political ideology . But how plausible is that ? May it ...
... Revolutionary commitment for deeper , a - political verities , it would follow , as Jerome McGann has argued , that their new , a - political stance was no more than a concealed political ideology . But how plausible is that ? May it ...
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... revolutionary books , Book IX and the first half of Book X. There thus emerged , in only fourteen further months , the 1805 Prelude , completed just after mid - May 1805 , and now containing the long preamble in Book I to the question ...
... revolutionary books , Book IX and the first half of Book X. There thus emerged , in only fourteen further months , the 1805 Prelude , completed just after mid - May 1805 , and now containing the long preamble in Book I to the question ...
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... revolutionary figure of love in Beaupuy , Book X has a figure of revolutionary destruction in Robespierre . The black and empty area of the poet's mind is next filled by the 1805 poet with that occasion when the editor of La Sentinelle ...
... revolutionary figure of love in Beaupuy , Book X has a figure of revolutionary destruction in Robespierre . The black and empty area of the poet's mind is next filled by the 1805 poet with that occasion when the editor of La Sentinelle ...
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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