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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... editions they went through , given that the typical edition of an eighteenth - century poem was about 1,000 copies . Pope's The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace , Imitated appeared first in 1733 as a folio , then in 1734 along ...
... editions they went through , given that the typical edition of an eighteenth - century poem was about 1,000 copies . Pope's The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace , Imitated appeared first in 1733 as a folio , then in 1734 along ...
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... Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1972 . Fleeman , J. D. “ The Revenue of a Writer ... Editions . London : Cambridge University Press , 1975 . . Pope and the Early Eighteenth - Century Book Trade ...
... Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1972 . Fleeman , J. D. “ The Revenue of a Writer ... Editions . London : Cambridge University Press , 1975 . . Pope and the Early Eighteenth - Century Book Trade ...
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... Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell ( Research Edition ) 2. 2nd ed . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ; New Haven : Yale University Press , 2001 . ed . James Boswell's Life of Johnson : An Edition of the Original ...
... Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell ( Research Edition ) 2. 2nd ed . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ; New Haven : Yale University Press , 2001 . ed . James Boswell's Life of Johnson : An Edition of the Original ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The First Political Imitation of Juvenal | 23 |
Imitators Imitating Swift Imitating Horace | 53 |
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