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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Page 89
... seriousness of the older laureate mode and its commentary on mores . They also distance Gay from the expansive sublimity of Whig panegyrical poetry . " Wine " is significant here . No criticism of Milton is , of course , intended . Yet ...
... seriousness of the older laureate mode and its commentary on mores . They also distance Gay from the expansive sublimity of Whig panegyrical poetry . " Wine " is significant here . No criticism of Milton is , of course , intended . Yet ...
Page 102
... seriousness so much as a deeply paradoxical way of showing the seriousness of his own concern for poetry and mores . Swift's earliest poems , the odes , are highly revealing attempts at the laureate mode in praise of William III ...
... seriousness so much as a deeply paradoxical way of showing the seriousness of his own concern for poetry and mores . Swift's earliest poems , the odes , are highly revealing attempts at the laureate mode in praise of William III ...
Page 129
... seriousness or failure of nerve on Pope's part.28 The frequent shifts of tone suit Pope's quicksilver temperament , but passages of real elevation are in- cluded within a total compound which avoids uniform solem- nity in order to ...
... seriousness or failure of nerve on Pope's part.28 The frequent shifts of tone suit Pope's quicksilver temperament , but passages of real elevation are in- cluded within a total compound which avoids uniform solem- nity in order to ...
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