Pt. I. Dryden and the 1690s. 1. Dryden's Later Plays and Poems -- pt. II. Pope and the Question of Jacobite Vision. 2. Early Poems to The Rape of the Lock. 3. The Rape of the Lock to The Dunciad -- pt. III. Johnson: Poems on Affairs of State. 4. The Decision of Samuel Johnson. 5. The Vanity of Human Wishes in Context -- pt. IV. The Politics of the Prelude. 6. Wordsworth and the Conception of The Prelude. 7. Experiencing Revolution
Summary
This major study of the relation between poetry and politics from the 1688 Revolution to the beginning of the 19th century focuses in particular on the works of Dryden, Pope, Johnson and Wordsworth
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-264) and index
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