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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... poetic merit , the poem is historically important as the first application of a satire of Juvenal to the contemporary political situation , and thus is an ancestor of Johnson's London . It also sheds interesting light on the response by ...
... poetic merit , the poem is historically important as the first application of a satire of Juvenal to the contemporary political situation , and thus is an ancestor of Johnson's London . It also sheds interesting light on the response by ...
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... poets.2 The status of Swift as a poet will probably always be contested , but we may safely presume that only his ... poems that only the most specialized scholar has ever read . As we sink lower we pass from obscure works by famous ...
... poets.2 The status of Swift as a poet will probably always be contested , but we may safely presume that only his ... poems that only the most specialized scholar has ever read . As we sink lower we pass from obscure works by famous ...
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... poems in their own right . And this emphasis requires that I quote and discuss passages from Horace and from Juvenal ... poets or singers in general , but my judgments have been somewhat arbitrary . And I ignore parodies and Imitations ...
... poems in their own right . And this emphasis requires that I quote and discuss passages from Horace and from Juvenal ... poets or singers in general , but my judgments have been somewhat arbitrary . And I ignore parodies and Imitations ...
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... poetic form , but that his de- mise was an important factor in its decline . Not all imitators , however , adopted the practice of Dryden . There was an alternative tradition based on the octosyllabic couplets of Samuel Butler's ...
... poetic form , but that his de- mise was an important factor in its decline . Not all imitators , however , adopted the practice of Dryden . There was an alternative tradition based on the octosyllabic couplets of Samuel Butler's ...
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... poem was about 1,000 copies . Pope's The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace , Imitated appeared first in 1733 ... poems would any common INTRODUCTION 19.
... poem was about 1,000 copies . Pope's The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace , Imitated appeared first in 1733 ... poems would any common INTRODUCTION 19.
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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