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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... readers " ( 112 ) . But why does this argument prove that we cannot write literary history ? Let us apply this argument to another kind of history , let us say , naval history . Ships certainly do not beget other ships , either , and ...
... readers " ( 112 ) . But why does this argument prove that we cannot write literary history ? Let us apply this argument to another kind of history , let us say , naval history . Ships certainly do not beget other ships , either , and ...
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... readers would have been able to make similar observations for themselves.7 Unlike in my earlier book , here I seldom discuss translations , as opposed to Imitations . And in the case of Horace , his epistles pres- ent a problem to which ...
... readers would have been able to make similar observations for themselves.7 Unlike in my earlier book , here I seldom discuss translations , as opposed to Imitations . And in the case of Horace , his epistles pres- ent a problem to which ...
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... readers that not only was the example of Pope crucial to the rise of the Imitation as a dominant poetic form , but that his de- mise was an important factor in its decline . Not all imitators , however , adopted the practice of Dryden ...
... readers that not only was the example of Pope crucial to the rise of the Imitation as a dominant poetic form , but that his de- mise was an important factor in its decline . Not all imitators , however , adopted the practice of Dryden ...
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... reader's attention , but as we shall see , especially when we reach the later 1730s and early 1740s , they are ... readers from Richard Bentley at the most learned end . I am not quite sure how far down to go from there . Obviously ...
... reader's attention , but as we shall see , especially when we reach the later 1730s and early 1740s , they are ... readers from Richard Bentley at the most learned end . I am not quite sure how far down to go from there . Obviously ...
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... readers were male , although we know some who were not , especially Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.15 A favorite subject of the satiric Imitation was politics , but I doubt that readership was restricted to those who enjoyed the franchise ...
... readers were male , although we know some who were not , especially Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.15 A favorite subject of the satiric Imitation was politics , but I doubt that readership was restricted to those who enjoyed the franchise ...
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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English Versions of Roman Satire in the Earlier Eighteenth Century William Kupersmith No preview available - 2007 |
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