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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... sublime like Sir Richard Blackmore . They agree with Giles Jacob that the " Divine Art " of poetry had : lately so much suffr'd in its Reputation by the Performances of some who have thought themselves inspir'd , and whose Readers have ...
... sublime like Sir Richard Blackmore . They agree with Giles Jacob that the " Divine Art " of poetry had : lately so much suffr'd in its Reputation by the Performances of some who have thought themselves inspir'd , and whose Readers have ...
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... sublime a Restoration heritage - but also the true poet's hatred of the bogus . He devotes Peri Bathous to satire of it , and writes to the Earl of Oxford that " Our modern poets preserve a painful Equality of Fustian throughout their ...
... sublime a Restoration heritage - but also the true poet's hatred of the bogus . He devotes Peri Bathous to satire of it , and writes to the Earl of Oxford that " Our modern poets preserve a painful Equality of Fustian throughout their ...
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... Sublime , " ELH 45 ( 1978 ) : 236–54 ) shows that the distinction between sublime and satirical poets should not be exagger- ated , but Pope's strategies remain very different from those of the poets Brown discusses . 16. Louis I ...
... Sublime , " ELH 45 ( 1978 ) : 236–54 ) shows that the distinction between sublime and satirical poets should not be exagger- ated , but Pope's strategies remain very different from those of the poets Brown discusses . 16. Louis I ...
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