Politeness and Poetry in the Age of PopeFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1989 - 166 Seiten Interest 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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... nature prior to culture and society , and all societies are con- stituted out of codes and conventions . It would be doctrinaire and simplistic to try to explain all this vast complex of tradi- tional social behavior in terms of ...
... nature prior to culture and society , and all societies are con- stituted out of codes and conventions . It would be doctrinaire and simplistic to try to explain all this vast complex of tradi- tional social behavior in terms of ...
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... , for in Castiglione the courtier's grace is seen by one speaker as the " gift of nature and of the heavens " rather than the product of human effort.11 Spenser's Tristram in book 6 of The Fairie Queene is INTRODUCTION 13.
... , for in Castiglione the courtier's grace is seen by one speaker as the " gift of nature and of the heavens " rather than the product of human effort.11 Spenser's Tristram in book 6 of The Fairie Queene is INTRODUCTION 13.
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... nature , so that civility as a part of civic life is essen- tially urban . The criteria used to distinguish natural manners or manners that fulfil nature from unnatural and superficial ones usually , of course , involve contrasting the ...
... nature , so that civility as a part of civic life is essen- tially urban . The criteria used to distinguish natural manners or manners that fulfil nature from unnatural and superficial ones usually , of course , involve contrasting the ...
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... nature side of the great debate . It thus reflects the position of an elite that is no longer primarily differentiated by birth , whatever its aristocratic elements . The metaphor also unavoidably seems to imply an attention to surfaces ...
... nature side of the great debate . It thus reflects the position of an elite that is no longer primarily differentiated by birth , whatever its aristocratic elements . The metaphor also unavoidably seems to imply an attention to surfaces ...
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... nature of English society " was actually " one of the most potent ways by which the aristocracy reinforced its privileged posi- tion . " Politeness thus represents the modification of traditional aristocratic attitudes and the co ...
... nature of English society " was actually " one of the most potent ways by which the aristocracy reinforced its privileged posi- tion . " Politeness thus represents the modification of traditional aristocratic attitudes and the co ...
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Alike Fantastick If Too New or Old Politeness and the Dilemma of Traditionalist Poets | 43 |
Softest Manners Gentlest Arts The Polite Verse of Thomas Parnell | 55 |
A Grace a Manner a Decorum Matthew Priors Polite Mystique | 70 |
John Gays Due Civilities The Ironies of Politeness | 86 |
A Kind of Artificial Good Sense Swift and the Forms of Politeness | 102 |
To Form the Manners Pope and the Poetry of Mores | 116 |
Notes | 135 |
Select Bibliography | 149 |
Index | 161 |
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Seite 123 - And speak, tho' sure, with seeming diffidence: Some positive, persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you, with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a Critic on the last.
Seite 76 - The women wretched, false the men : And when, these certain ills to shun, She would to thy embraces run ; Receive her with extended arms : Seem more delighted with her charms : Wait on her to the park and play : Put on good humour ; make her gay : Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd ; And clap your padlock — on her mind.
Seite 86 - Through the whole piece you may observe such a similitude of manners in high and low life, that it is difficult to determine whether (in the fashionable vices) the fine gentlemen imitate the gentlemen of the road, or the gentlemen of the road the fine gentlemen.- Had the Play remain'd, as I at first intended, it would have carried a most excellent moral.
Seite 77 - ABSENT from thee, I languish still; Then ask me not, when I return? The straying fool 'twill plainly kill To wish all day, all night to mourn. Dear ! from thine arms then let me fly, That my fantastic mind may prove The torments it deserves to try That tears my fixed heart from my love. When, wearied with a world of woe...
Seite 129 - I found him close with Swift— Indeed? no doubt (Cries prating Balbus) something will come out.' 'Tis all in vain, deny it as I will: 'No, such a genius never can lie still'; And then for mine obligingly mistakes The first lampoon Sir Will or Bubo makes.
Seite 67 - O'er the long lake and midnight ground !) It sends a peal of hollow groans, Thus speaking from among the bones. ' When men my scythe and darts supply, How great a king of fears am I ! They view me like the last of things : They make, and then they dread, my stings.
Seite 29 - ... would indeed be a wild project; it would be to dig up foundations; to destroy at one blow all the wit, and half the learning of the kingdom; to break the entire frame and constitution of things; to ruin trade, extinguish arts and sciences with the professors of them; in short, to turn our courts, exchanges, and shops into deserts...
Seite 27 - Well-order'd home man's best delight to make ; And by submissive wisdom, modest skill, With every gentle care-eluding art. To raise the virtues, animate the bliss, And sweeten all the toils of human life: This be the female dignity, and praise.
Seite 61 - I'll lift my voice, and tune my string, And thee, great Source of Nature, sing. The sun that walks his airy way, To light the world, and give the day ; The moon that shines with...
Seite 29 - ... all the wit, and half the learning of the kingdom; to break the entire frame and constitution of things; to ruin trade, extinguish arts and sciences with the professors of them; in short, to turn our courts, exchanges, and shops into deserts; and would be full as absurd as the proposal of Horace, where he advises the Romans all in a body to leave their city, and seek a new seat in some remote part of the world, by way of cure for the corruption of their manners.