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 163
... experience of the 1740s . ' Wolsey ' and ' Swedish Charles ' are not covert names for Walpole and Charles Edward , as I have tried to make clear : they are examples which cannot fail to remind of them when the poem is read in context ...
... experience of the 1740s . ' Wolsey ' and ' Swedish Charles ' are not covert names for Walpole and Charles Edward , as I have tried to make clear : they are examples which cannot fail to remind of them when the poem is read in context ...
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... experience in The Prelude was one of the most momentous of his literary career , comparable to Milton's decision in the year of Oliver Cromwell's death to develop his projected drama ' Adam Unparadised ' into an epic with Satan in the ...
... experience in The Prelude was one of the most momentous of his literary career , comparable to Milton's decision in the year of Oliver Cromwell's death to develop his projected drama ' Adam Unparadised ' into an epic with Satan in the ...
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... experience , holds a unique and central position in Wordsworth's writings , connecting the egalitarian idealism of ' Llandaff ' , ' Salisbury Plain ' , and ' Juvenal ' with the later and more detached treatment of the French Revolution ...
... experience , holds a unique and central position in Wordsworth's writings , connecting the egalitarian idealism of ' Llandaff ' , ' Salisbury Plain ' , and ' Juvenal ' with the later and more detached treatment of the French Revolution ...
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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