Patriotism and Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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Cambridge University Press, 2002 M02 21 - 328 pages
The poetry of the mid- and late-eighteenth century has long been regarded as essentially private and apolitical. Dustin Griffin argues in this study that the poets of the period were actually addressing the great issues of national life--rebellion at home, imperial wars abroad, an expanding commercial empire, and an emerging new British national identity. He also reveals that poets such as Thomas Gray, Christopher Smart, Oliver Goldsmith, and William Cowper were engaged in the century-long debate about the nature of true patriotism.

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About the author (2002)

Dustin Griffin is Professor of English at New York University. He is the author of a number of books on Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature, including Satires on Man: The Poems of Rochester (1973), Alexander Pope: The Poet in the Poems (1978), Regaining Paradise: Milton and the Eighteenth Century (1986), Satire: A Critical Re-Introduction (1994), and Literary Patronage in England, 1650-1800 (Cambridge 1996).

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TitlePatriotism and Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Britain
AuthorDustin Griffin
Editionillustrated
PublisherCambridge University Press, 2002
ISBN052181118X, 9780521811187
Length328 pages
  
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