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Author Erskine-Hill, Howard

Title Poetry of opposition and revolution : Dryden to Wordsworth / Howard Erskine-Hill
Published Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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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Subject English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Political poetry, English -- History and criticism
Opposition (Political science) in literature.
Revolutions in literature.
Political poetry, English -- 19th century -- History and criticism
English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism
English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
English poetry
Opposition (Political science) in literature
Political poetry, English
Politics and literature
Revolutions in literature
Gedichten.
Politiek.
Engels.
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191671296
0191671290