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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... turn take the form of an argument about town and country life . The superficial and unnatural life of the town can be contrasted with the plain living of the country , or the social climbing of the former set against the settled ...
... turn take the form of an argument about town and country life . The superficial and unnatural life of the town can be contrasted with the plain living of the country , or the social climbing of the former set against the settled ...
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... . Freed from the more impersonal genres , " occa- sional " poets can turn more of their lives into poetry . An interest in something approximating to poetic autobiography appears in a poem 40 POLITENESS AND POETRY IN THE AGE OF POPE.
... . Freed from the more impersonal genres , " occa- sional " poets can turn more of their lives into poetry . An interest in something approximating to poetic autobiography appears in a poem 40 POLITENESS AND POETRY IN THE AGE OF POPE.
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... turn . In each case the young man seems to act with striking and sometimes crimi- nal injustice , but at the end he is revealed to be an angel and his behavior is explained and vindicated . Parnell's version refines the content of the ...
... turn . In each case the young man seems to act with striking and sometimes crimi- nal injustice , but at the end he is revealed to be an angel and his behavior is explained and vindicated . Parnell's version refines the content of 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