Visits to Bedlam: Madness and Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyUniversity of South Carolina Press, 1974 - 200 Seiten |
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... poet for the Augustans , thus , had become not only a man among other men but also a moral figure , a truthful and responsible public voice . In The Dunciad Pope stings equally cruelly the visionary poet and " the Muse's Hypocrite ...
... poet for the Augustans , thus , had become not only a man among other men but also a moral figure , a truthful and responsible public voice . In The Dunciad Pope stings equally cruelly the visionary poet and " the Muse's Hypocrite ...
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... poet's personality , as in the case of Chatterton , and makes it articulate . Yet these mad poets of the age of sensibility can hardly be taken in the profounder sense that Wordsworth uses to describe the poet's vatic task : Some call'd ...
... poet's personality , as in the case of Chatterton , and makes it articulate . Yet these mad poets of the age of sensibility can hardly be taken in the profounder sense that Wordsworth uses to describe the poet's vatic task : Some call'd ...
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... poetic gift is too strong for Swift or Pope . And the destructiveness of the gift is likewise incomprehensible . If the poet is a marked man , as indeed Pope sometimes thought he was , it is because , on the surface at least , the world ...
... poetic gift is too strong for Swift or Pope . And the destructiveness of the gift is likewise incomprehensible . If the poet is a marked man , as indeed Pope sometimes thought he was , it is because , on the surface at least , the world ...
Inhalt
CHAPTER TWO The Dunciad and Augustan Madness | 12 |
CHAPTER THREE Swift | 58 |
CHAPTER FOUR Johnson | 88 |
Urheberrecht | |
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