Author: Samuel Wesley
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Category : Epic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700)
Author: Samuel Wesley
Publisher:
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Category : Epic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Category : Epic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Poetry and the Creation of a Whig Literary Culture 1681-1714
Author: Abigail Williams
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199255202
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
"This book offers a revisionist history of early eighteenth-century poetry. It demonstrates that many of the Whig writers frequently attacked as hacks and dunces were in fact successful and popular in their own time. This text maps the evolution of this poetic tradition, examining the relationship between literary and political culture in the early eighteenth-century"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199255202
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
"This book offers a revisionist history of early eighteenth-century poetry. It demonstrates that many of the Whig writers frequently attacked as hacks and dunces were in fact successful and popular in their own time. This text maps the evolution of this poetic tradition, examining the relationship between literary and political culture in the early eighteenth-century"--Provided by publisher.
Pope, Homer, and Manliness
Author: Carolyn D. Williams
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317694740
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The author here reassesses the concept of ‘masculinity’, and argues that it cannot be seen as an absolute standard, but only as the product of perpetual conflict between competing and unstable models. The argument is sustained by a close reading of the problematic conflict between gendered values in eighteenth-century classical learning. Pope’s Homer ensured the continuation of the tradition of using the Iliad and Odyssey to teach privileged boys how to become more ‘manly’. This book examines this pedagogy in its socio-literary context, and concludes that Pope’s Homer emerges as a relic of the struggle to preserve masculine dignity from the encroachments of feminine values in the text. This knowledge of classical and early modern literature has rarely been brought to bear on gender studies. First published in 1993, it remains a valuable contribution to debates concerning the reception of the Classical tradition.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317694740
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The author here reassesses the concept of ‘masculinity’, and argues that it cannot be seen as an absolute standard, but only as the product of perpetual conflict between competing and unstable models. The argument is sustained by a close reading of the problematic conflict between gendered values in eighteenth-century classical learning. Pope’s Homer ensured the continuation of the tradition of using the Iliad and Odyssey to teach privileged boys how to become more ‘manly’. This book examines this pedagogy in its socio-literary context, and concludes that Pope’s Homer emerges as a relic of the struggle to preserve masculine dignity from the encroachments of feminine values in the text. This knowledge of classical and early modern literature has rarely been brought to bear on gender studies. First published in 1993, it remains a valuable contribution to debates concerning the reception of the Classical tradition.
Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry 1700 and the Essay on Heroic Poetry
Author: Samuel Wesley
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Languages : en
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Languages : en
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The Neo-classic Mock Epic and Its Relation to Epic and Satire
Author: Sister M. Francesca Cabrini Weber
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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"The present study is interested in discovering why the mock epic should rise to such widespread popularity; what constituted its special appeal; why, in fact, the peak of its development should be almost coterminous with the general limits of this age. Even if we attribute much of this prominence to the genius of a poet such as [Alexander] Pope, we must still account for the interest which it elicited from him." Examined works include Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" and "The Dunciad" and Samuel Garth's "The Dispensary."--The Introduction, l.1
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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"The present study is interested in discovering why the mock epic should rise to such widespread popularity; what constituted its special appeal; why, in fact, the peak of its development should be almost coterminous with the general limits of this age. Even if we attribute much of this prominence to the genius of a poet such as [Alexander] Pope, we must still account for the interest which it elicited from him." Examined works include Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" and "The Dunciad" and Samuel Garth's "The Dispensary."--The Introduction, l.1
Catalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Author: Folger Shakespeare Library
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Library of Congress Catalogs
Author: Library of Congress
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Subject Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Dictionary Catalog of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Author: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Secular Chains
Author: Philip Connell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019107831X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Secular Chains offers an original and richly contextualized account of the relationship between poetry and religious controversy between 1649 and 1745. This was a period of political conflict and intellectual upheaval, in which traditional sources of spiritual authority were variously challenged and transformed. This study reveals the importance of English literary culture for our understanding of this process, and throws new light on the dynamics of change and continuity between the puritan revolution and the early Enlightenment. Based on extensive research in both printed and manuscript sources, the book combines detailed case studies of major literary figures with a sustained historical narrative linking the republican moment of the 1650s, the conflicts and crises of the Restoration, and the ecclesiastical politics of the early eighteenth century. Milton and Dryden provide the principal focus of the first three chapters, which explore the divisive issue of church settlement in the work of both writers, together with the increasingly prominent rhetoric of anti-clericalism and irreligion in the poetry and polemics of the later seventeenth century. Subsequent chapters extend the book's argument to the embattled condition of the Church of England in the decades after 1688, and the significant contribution of contemporary literary culture to a range of religious and philosophical argument, from heterodox free-thinking to Newtonian natural theology. Secular Chains demonstrates the close and continued relationship between poetry and religious politics in the age of Milton and Pope, and provides a new framework for understanding this complex and turbulent period in English literary history.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019107831X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Secular Chains offers an original and richly contextualized account of the relationship between poetry and religious controversy between 1649 and 1745. This was a period of political conflict and intellectual upheaval, in which traditional sources of spiritual authority were variously challenged and transformed. This study reveals the importance of English literary culture for our understanding of this process, and throws new light on the dynamics of change and continuity between the puritan revolution and the early Enlightenment. Based on extensive research in both printed and manuscript sources, the book combines detailed case studies of major literary figures with a sustained historical narrative linking the republican moment of the 1650s, the conflicts and crises of the Restoration, and the ecclesiastical politics of the early eighteenth century. Milton and Dryden provide the principal focus of the first three chapters, which explore the divisive issue of church settlement in the work of both writers, together with the increasingly prominent rhetoric of anti-clericalism and irreligion in the poetry and polemics of the later seventeenth century. Subsequent chapters extend the book's argument to the embattled condition of the Church of England in the decades after 1688, and the significant contribution of contemporary literary culture to a range of religious and philosophical argument, from heterodox free-thinking to Newtonian natural theology. Secular Chains demonstrates the close and continued relationship between poetry and religious politics in the age of Milton and Pope, and provides a new framework for understanding this complex and turbulent period in English literary history.