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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Page 48
... Scriblerian friends makes Swift seem to imply that his relation- ship with Harley is more literary than Horace's with Maecenas ! Yet the account of their journey to Windsor by way of Staines should put us on our guard . They are of ...
... Scriblerian friends makes Swift seem to imply that his relation- ship with Harley is more literary than Horace's with Maecenas ! Yet the account of their journey to Windsor by way of Staines should put us on our guard . They are of ...
Page 73
... Scriblerian can ever be taken at face value , that disavowal fits what we know of Pope's intentions in the early 1730s : to work on an opus magnum treating ethics in a Horatian manner . As Pope wrote to Swift shortly after the ...
... Scriblerian can ever be taken at face value , that disavowal fits what we know of Pope's intentions in the early 1730s : to work on an opus magnum treating ethics in a Horatian manner . As Pope wrote to Swift shortly after the ...
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... Scriblerian and translator of Homer . Of course the Law of the Twelve Tables and the Sibylline Oracles would have seemed crude and obscure to even a devoted Roman antiquary — the English scholar who has been frog marched through a ...
... Scriblerian and translator of Homer . Of course the Law of the Twelve Tables and the Sibylline Oracles would have seemed crude and obscure to even a devoted Roman antiquary — the English scholar who has been frog marched through a ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The First Political Imitation of Juvenal | 23 |
Imitators Imitating Swift Imitating Horace | 53 |
Copyright | |
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