English Versions of Roman Satire in the Earlier Eighteenth CenturyThis book discusses Imitations of the ancient Roman verse satirists Horace, Juvenal, and Perseus published in Britain in the first half of the eighteenth century. It endeavors to put major writers such as Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson in the context of lesser writers of the period. It also devotes attention to other canonical writers such as Jonathan Swift, Henry Fielding, and Christopher Smart. |
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... Juvenal's thirteenth satire pub- lished in 1707 , The Merchant's Advocate . Though of little poetic merit , the poem is historically important as the first application of a satire of Juvenal to the contemporary political situation , and ...
... Juvenal's thirteenth satire pub- lished in 1707 , The Merchant's Advocate . Though of little poetic merit , the poem is historically important as the first application of a satire of Juvenal to the contemporary political situation , and ...
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... Juvenal's section on eloquence in the tenth satire ( 114—32 ) is much shorter and less detailed than Johnson's famous treatment of the scholar's lot in The Vanity of Human Wishes ( 135-74 ) . On the other hand , as we shall see ...
... Juvenal's section on eloquence in the tenth satire ( 114—32 ) is much shorter and less detailed than Johnson's famous treatment of the scholar's lot in The Vanity of Human Wishes ( 135-74 ) . On the other hand , as we shall see ...
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... Juvenal had already excelled , as we shall see in comparing Johnson's account of the career of Charles XII with Juvenal's of Hannibal . The second criterion is that the selected passages provide interesting and amus- ing , if not always ...
... Juvenal had already excelled , as we shall see in comparing Johnson's account of the career of Charles XII with Juvenal's of Hannibal . The second criterion is that the selected passages provide interesting and amus- ing , if not always ...
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... Juvenal's thirteenth satire to the present time . If to see the guilty suffering deserved punishment moves our pity , so much greater should be our anguish at the pains of the innocent . But who can forbear to show Compassion to those ...
... Juvenal's thirteenth satire to the present time . If to see the guilty suffering deserved punishment moves our pity , so much greater should be our anguish at the pains of the innocent . But who can forbear to show Compassion to those ...
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... Juvenal's 249 verses . Even when he does not mention current events he adds a good deal of his own verbiage . Many passages would fit either a translation or an Imita- tion . Juvenal began by assuring his friend Calvinus , who had been ...
... Juvenal's 249 verses . Even when he does not mention current events he adds a good deal of his own verbiage . Many passages would fit either a translation or an Imita- tion . Juvenal began by assuring his friend Calvinus , who had been ...
Contents
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Imitators Imitating Swift Imitating Horace | 53 |
Alexander Popes Earlier Imitations of Horace | 64 |
Responses to Popes Earlier Imitations | 85 |
Pope and Horace The Later Period | 102 |
Imitations of Roman Satire in the Later 1730s | 136 |
The Imitation from 1740 to 1750 | 169 |
Conclusion | 212 |
Appendix | 223 |
Notes | 228 |
Bibliography | 255 |
Index | 265 |
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