English Versions of Roman Satire in the Earlier Eighteenth CenturyThis book discusses Imitations of the ancient Roman verse satirists Horace, Juvenal, and Perseus published in Britain in the first half of the eighteenth century. It endeavors to put major writers such as Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson in the context of lesser writers of the period. It also devotes attention to other canonical writers such as Jonathan Swift, Henry Fielding, and Christopher Smart. |
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... Harley . HARLEY , the Nation's great Support , Returning home one Day from Court , ( His Mind with Publick Cares possest , All Europe's Bus'ness in his Breast ) , Observ'd a Parson near Whitehall , Cheapning old Authors on a Stall . MY ...
... Harley . HARLEY , the Nation's great Support , Returning home one Day from Court , ( His Mind with Publick Cares possest , All Europe's Bus'ness in his Breast ) , Observ'd a Parson near Whitehall , Cheapning old Authors on a Stall . MY ...
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... Harley , and he had written some satiric squibs on Whig politicians , but as readers of the Journal to Stella know , the initial encounter be- tween Swift and Harley was anything but accidental and the initiative was entirely with Swift ...
... Harley , and he had written some satiric squibs on Whig politicians , but as readers of the Journal to Stella know , the initial encounter be- tween Swift and Harley was anything but accidental and the initiative was entirely with Swift ...
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... Harley's fellow members of the Scriblerus Club , has no parallel in Horace— indeed , in retrospect Swift makes us wonder why Horace and Maece- nas were not shown discussing literature or mentioning their friends the poets Virgil and ...
... Harley's fellow members of the Scriblerus Club , has no parallel in Horace— indeed , in retrospect Swift makes us wonder why Horace and Maece- nas were not shown discussing literature or mentioning their friends the poets Virgil and ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The First Political Imitation of Juvenal | 23 |
Imitators Imitating Swift Imitating Horace | 53 |
Copyright | |
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