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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... Writers are no exception to this rule . In the event of a second Restoration , Congreve would have as much to gain as Dryden now . Dryden's retrospect on English writing before and after the civil wars , expressed in part through the ...
... Writers are no exception to this rule . In the event of a second Restoration , Congreve would have as much to gain as Dryden now . Dryden's retrospect on English writing before and after the civil wars , expressed in part through the ...
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... writers and publishers are as much a metaphor for human littleness as objects of satire in their own right , but the poem's concern for the condition of literature is a part of its tenacious Augustan ideal . The twin concerns with writing ...
... writers and publishers are as much a metaphor for human littleness as objects of satire in their own right , but the poem's concern for the condition of literature is a part of its tenacious Augustan ideal . The twin concerns with writing ...
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... writing to Swift after the publication of the Epistle , the lines were discussed at the Privy Council when the ... writers as Augustus had preferred the older writers of Rome . The implied hearer of Pope's discourse is , perhaps , a ...
... writing to Swift after the publication of the Epistle , the lines were discussed at the Privy Council when the ... writers as Augustus had preferred the older writers of Rome . The implied hearer of Pope's discourse is , perhaps , a ...
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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