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Page 44
... attack , by the earlier poet , upon the Revolution Settlement.'18 Viewed in this light , the implied attack on George II is less upon him as an individual than upon a succession of whiggish monarchs stretching back past Dunce ( or ...
... attack , by the earlier poet , upon the Revolution Settlement.'18 Viewed in this light , the implied attack on George II is less upon him as an individual than upon a succession of whiggish monarchs stretching back past Dunce ( or ...
Page 56
... attack on ' Timon ' in his Epistle to Burlington was generally taken to be based on the Duke of Chandos , despite Pope's vehement protests to the contrary . Not that such ambiguities always worked against the satirist's interests ...
... attack on ' Timon ' in his Epistle to Burlington was generally taken to be based on the Duke of Chandos , despite Pope's vehement protests to the contrary . Not that such ambiguities always worked against the satirist's interests ...
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... attack him without using either his name or an historical alias . It was sufficient merely for satirists to refer to a ' Great Man ' , or sometimes even simply to ' a statesman ' for an audience to identify the target as Walpole . Gay's ...
... attack him without using either his name or an historical alias . It was sufficient merely for satirists to refer to a ' Great Man ' , or sometimes even simply to ' a statesman ' for an audience to identify the target as Walpole . Gay's ...
Contents
Themes and Forms of Augustan Satire | 32 |
Pope | 99 |
John Gay | 122 |
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