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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... takes a shrewd , worldly look at three contending forms of political sanction , patriarchalism , contract , and protection ( seeking to recog- nize her true husband by the love he shows , Alcmena has been spurned by the jealous ...
... takes a shrewd , worldly look at three contending forms of political sanction , patriarchalism , contract , and protection ( seeking to recog- nize her true husband by the love he shows , Alcmena has been spurned by the jealous ...
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... takes , or seems to take , from its Horatian 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 ...
... takes , or seems to take , from its Horatian 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 ...
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... takes up the theme of liberty once more , not now in a personal or individual form , but as manifest in myth and history , peoples and nations . He speaks of ' the soul Of liberty ' as it animated Mithridates , Sertorius , Dominque de ...
... takes up the theme of liberty once more , not now in a personal or individual form , but as manifest in myth and history , peoples and nations . He speaks of ' the soul Of liberty ' as it animated Mithridates , Sertorius , Dominque de ...
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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