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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... thought themselves inspir'd , and whose Readers have too many of them thought the same , that the best Judges come strongly prejudic'd against any thing of this kind , as generally expecting nothing but Froth and Emptiness.15 All this ...
... thought themselves inspir'd , and whose Readers have too many of them thought the same , that the best Judges come strongly prejudic'd against any thing of this kind , as generally expecting nothing but Froth and Emptiness.15 All this ...
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... Thought , 1500-1700 . Oxford : University Press , 1964 . Hammond , Mason . The City in the Ancient World . Cambridge : Harvard Univer- sity Press , 1972 . Hanson , Donald . From Kingdom to Commonwealth : The Development of Civic ...
... Thought , 1500-1700 . Oxford : University Press , 1964 . Hammond , Mason . The City in the Ancient World . Cambridge : Harvard Univer- sity Press , 1972 . Hanson , Donald . From Kingdom to Commonwealth : The Development of Civic ...
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... Thought and His- tory , Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century . Cambridge : University Press , 1986 . Porter , Roy . English Society in the Eighteenth Century . The Pelican Social History of Britain . Harmondsworth : Pelican , 1982 . " The ...
... Thought and His- tory , Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century . Cambridge : University Press , 1986 . Porter , Roy . English Society in the Eighteenth Century . The Pelican Social History of Britain . Harmondsworth : Pelican , 1982 . " The ...
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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