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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... Pope , however , acknowledged Denham's version of this speech , which indeed pointed the way to Pope's aphoristic patterning , while throwing a few of his decisions into relief . While accepting ' trans- cend ' from Denham Pope is the ...
... Pope , however , acknowledged Denham's version of this speech , which indeed pointed the way to Pope's aphoristic patterning , while throwing a few of his decisions into relief . While accepting ' trans- cend ' from Denham Pope is the ...
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... Pope's lifetime . If we seek to characterize this political vein we may say that it is much concerned with defeat ... Pope's political cast is not Whiggish , therefore , and only courtly in regard to the Tory phase of Anne's reign . If ...
... Pope's lifetime . If we seek to characterize this political vein we may say that it is much concerned with defeat ... Pope's political cast is not Whiggish , therefore , and only courtly in regard to the Tory phase of Anne's reign . If ...
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... Pope was later to exploit in his Epistle To Augus- tus ) Augustus was the second name of George II . Parallels with Augustus were common in political panegyric.33 The readiness of Pope's readers ( alerted no doubt by the initials and ...
... Pope was later to exploit in his Epistle To Augus- tus ) Augustus was the second name of George II . Parallels with Augustus were common in political panegyric.33 The readiness of Pope's readers ( alerted no doubt by the initials and ...
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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