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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... William Diaper , George Ogle , James Smith , William Hamilton of Bangour , and Soame Jen- yns . These are poets about whom we have some biographical and bibliographical information , at least in the Oxford Dictionary of Na- tional ...
... William Diaper , George Ogle , James Smith , William Hamilton of Bangour , and Soame Jen- yns . These are poets about whom we have some biographical and bibliographical information , at least in the Oxford Dictionary of Na- tional ...
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... Diaper as a PhD thesis . 2. Journal to Stella , 512 . 3. Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope , ed ... William Diaper ( London : Routledge and Kegan Paul , 1951 ) , xviii - xx . 7. Broughton identifies it as Fable 13 in The ...
... Diaper as a PhD thesis . 2. Journal to Stella , 512 . 3. Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope , ed ... William Diaper ( London : Routledge and Kegan Paul , 1951 ) , xviii - xx . 7. Broughton identifies it as Fable 13 in The ...
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... William Hamilton of Bangour : Poet and Jacobite . Aberdeen : Aber- deen University Press , 1957 . Cannon , John ... Diaper , William . The Complete Works of William Diaper . Edited by Dorothy Broughton . London : Routledge and Kegan Paul ...
... William Hamilton of Bangour : Poet and Jacobite . Aberdeen : Aber- deen University Press , 1957 . Cannon , John ... Diaper , William . The Complete Works of William Diaper . Edited by Dorothy Broughton . London : Routledge and Kegan Paul ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The First Political Imitation of Juvenal | 23 |
Imitators Imitating Swift Imitating Horace | 53 |
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