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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... certainly right to see the muse of revenge transcended by a sacred muse . " 7 ' Let old Timotheus yield the Prize ' certainly - but then Dryden's tracks are swiftly and grace- fully covered at the very end of the ode , achieving a ...
... certainly right to see the muse of revenge transcended by a sacred muse . " 7 ' Let old Timotheus yield the Prize ' certainly - but then Dryden's tracks are swiftly and grace- fully covered at the very end of the ode , achieving a ...
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... Certainly a discredited but long - lingering picture of the eighteenth century must finally be discarded : that according to which a generally acclaimed public event , the revolution of 1688 , led to an inexorable secular and ...
... Certainly a discredited but long - lingering picture of the eighteenth century must finally be discarded : that according to which a generally acclaimed public event , the revolution of 1688 , led to an inexorable secular and ...
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... certainly be seen as a special response to The Love of Fame and its invitation to him . Pope's poem takes , or seems to take , from its Horatian original the same pattern which had underlain Young's Satires IV and VII : praise at the ...
... certainly be seen as a special response to The Love of Fame and its invitation to him . Pope's poem takes , or seems to take , from its Horatian original the same pattern which had underlain Young's Satires IV and VII : praise at the ...
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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