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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Page 134
... Johnson's background and political views , this being connected in turn with the question of the reliability of Boswell , especially on Johnson's earliest years.49 I have therefore attempted , first , to outline some of the ...
... Johnson's background and political views , this being connected in turn with the question of the reliability of Boswell , especially on Johnson's earliest years.49 I have therefore attempted , first , to outline some of the ...
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... Johnson , is the letter of 31 July 1762 to the Earl of Bute recommending Johnson for a pension from the new administration . This anonymous document was probably one of several submitted with the same end in view and there is no sure ...
... Johnson , is the letter of 31 July 1762 to the Earl of Bute recommending Johnson for a pension from the new administration . This anonymous document was probably one of several submitted with the same end in view and there is no sure ...
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... Johnson's own reactions to Wal- pole's fall were complex . 16 Johnson's account of the debate on the motion to remove Wal- pole , in the Gentleman's Magazine's ' Debates in the Senate of Lilliput ' , was eventually published in 1743 ...
... Johnson's own reactions to Wal- pole's fall were complex . 16 Johnson's account of the debate on the motion to remove Wal- pole , in the Gentleman's Magazine's ' Debates in the Senate of Lilliput ' , was eventually published in 1743 ...
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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