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... tragic . In making fate so obvious , oppressive , and busy an agent , Dryden prevents the action from moving inexorably to its central tragic reversal ; instead , we are given a succession of reversals . The solution of any one problem ...
... tragic . In making fate so obvious , oppressive , and busy an agent , Dryden prevents the action from moving inexorably to its central tragic reversal ; instead , we are given a succession of reversals . The solution of any one problem ...
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... tragic figure than any other in Dryden's poem ; in fact , he rises to tragic stature as much as he does through the contrast with Shimei , Zimri , and the rest of his followers . But Achitophel is fixed in a pattern that will never ...
... tragic figure than any other in Dryden's poem ; in fact , he rises to tragic stature as much as he does through the contrast with Shimei , Zimri , and the rest of his followers . But Achitophel is fixed in a pattern that will never ...
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... tragic postures and a near - tragic speech : " But why do I blame Fortune ? I am myself the cause of all my misery . " But at this point the author intrudes to remind us how artfully he had managed the ninth book to prevent Partridge ...
... tragic postures and a near - tragic speech : " But why do I blame Fortune ? I am myself the cause of all my misery . " But at this point the author intrudes to remind us how artfully he had managed the ninth book to prevent Partridge ...
Contents
PREFACE vii | 1 |
Order and Orders | 10 |
The Instance of Pascal | 18 |
Copyright | |
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Absalom accept achieve Achitophel Almanzor artist assertion Augustan Aureng-zebe awareness beauty becomes Blake Blake's Brobdingnag Bromion characters Christian Clarissa comic contrast creates creature Defoe Deist dialectical divine doctrine Dryden Dulness Dunciad embodies energy epistle Essay eternal experience false feeling Fielding Fielding's flesh force freedom gives Gulliver's Travels harmony heart hero heroic Houyhnhnms human Ian Watt idea imagination Innocence insists kind landscape live Lovelace lovers MacFlecknoe man's Mandeville Mandeville's marriage meaning Milton's Moll Flanders moral moralist move nature never novel once Oothoon order of charity order of mind painting Pascal passion pastoral pattern play pleasure poem poet poetry political Pope Pope's pride rational reason satire scene seeks seems selfhood sense Shaftesbury social Songs of Experience soul spirit Sterne sublime Swift Theotormon things thou thought tion Tiriel Tom Jones tragic transcendence Tristram true turn Urizen virtue vision words worldly
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Elations: The Poetics of Enthusiasm in Eighteenth-century Britain Shaun Irlam No preview available - 1999 |