Politeness and Poetry in the Age of PopeInterest in politeness in the eighteenth century is shown to reflect anxiety about social change and indicate a search for guidelines in a newly commercialized society. Evident is the dilemma of poets such as Parnell, Prior, Swift, Gay, and Pope. |
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... morals and gentle birth is potentially double - edged . It had to be conceded , of course , that not all the gentle of birth were gentle morally , nor all the ungentle of birth lacking in moral gentleness . When the Church put its ...
... morals and gentle birth is potentially double - edged . It had to be conceded , of course , that not all the gentle of birth were gentle morally , nor all the ungentle of birth lacking in moral gentleness . When the Church put its ...
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... moral education . " 40 It pays the clearest and most self - conscious atten- tion to what seem the relatively trivial details of dress and be- havior , providing cultural guidelines of extraordinary range and detail , which encompass ...
... moral education . " 40 It pays the clearest and most self - conscious atten- tion to what seem the relatively trivial details of dress and be- havior , providing cultural guidelines of extraordinary range and detail , which encompass ...
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... moral perspective . In po- etry he has an inhibiting sense of the elevation and responsibility required to write properly on mores . The evasion of the respon- sibility produces deliberate brevity and a degree of marginaliza- tion . In ...
... moral perspective . In po- etry he has an inhibiting sense of the elevation and responsibility required to write properly on mores . The evasion of the respon- sibility produces deliberate brevity and a degree of marginaliza- tion . In ...
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Addison and Steele Alexander Pope Arbuthnot aristocratic attitudes Beggar's Opera birth bourgeois C. J. Rawson Century Christian cited civility Clarendon Press classical commercial convention corrupt court wits Criticism cultural decorum demystified despite developments Dunciad E. P. Thompson Eighteenth elements elite England English epic Essay ethos example false sublime fashionable Gay's genteel Gentleman gentry genuine Horace ideal idleness imagery J. C. D. Clark John John Gay Jonson laureate poet leisure Leonard Welsted literary Literature London manners Matthew Prior McKeon Michael McKeon mock-heroic mode modern politeness moral norms obviously occasional verse old ideology Oxford panegyrical Parnell's pastoral patronage period poem poet poet's Poetics polish polite sentiment praise present Prior Prose quasi-aristocratic religious Renaissance Restoration court revealing role satire scepticism Scriblerian secular sense seriousness social society sprezzatura status stylishness Swift Thomas Parnell tion tone Tory town true University Press upper-class virtue Whig whole women write