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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... thought's no sin , I think your friends are out , and would be in . ' unless the ideological roots of such opposition are exposed . An exploration of Dryden's 1690s work is probably the best way of achieving this , for the relation of ...
... thought's no sin , I think your friends are out , and would be in . ' unless the ideological roots of such opposition are exposed . An exploration of Dryden's 1690s work is probably the best way of achieving this , for the relation of ...
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... thought to respond to the fall of Cromwellian monarchy as well as to the return of Charles . Milton's reaction to the defeat of the final republic ( whether by covert agreement or no ) was to retreat from overt engagement , and work ...
... thought to respond to the fall of Cromwellian monarchy as well as to the return of Charles . Milton's reaction to the defeat of the final republic ( whether by covert agreement or no ) was to retreat from overt engagement , and work ...
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... thought Pope intended the names ' George ' and ' Caroline ' ; Edmund Curll suggested ' Kings ' and ' Prin- cesses'.34 Hostile to Pope though these commentators were , they were hardly wide of the mark , since the lost manuscript drawn ...
... thought Pope intended the names ' George ' and ' Caroline ' ; Edmund Curll suggested ' Kings ' and ' Prin- cesses'.34 Hostile to Pope though these commentators were , they were hardly wide of the mark , since the lost manuscript drawn ...
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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