Politeness and Poetry in the Age of PopeFairleigh Dickinson University 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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... Pope's modification of old values and his simultaneous attempt to assimilate new values to traditional models . The new capitalism and commercialism were the most obvious influences necessitating revisions of the old ethos . From Pope's ...
... Pope's modification of old values and his simultaneous attempt to assimilate new values to traditional models . The new capitalism and commercialism were the most obvious influences necessitating revisions of the old ethos . From Pope's ...
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... Pope the individual marginalized , critical , declassed and angry " —his position as a Catholic under the penal laws , for example.21 These energies contribute to the power of Pope's satire , producing a degree of identification with ...
... Pope the individual marginalized , critical , declassed and angry " —his position as a Catholic under the penal laws , for example.21 These energies contribute to the power of Pope's satire , producing a degree of identification with ...
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... Pope draw that elite audience that the whole orientation of his poetry demands , and by what standards can he educate them ? Is his authority drawn solely from an idealized past , and if so then how can these standards be made to seem ...
... Pope draw that elite audience that the whole orientation of his poetry demands , and by what standards can he educate them ? Is his authority drawn solely from an idealized past , and if so then how can these standards be made to seem ...
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Preface | 7 |
Politics the Poet | 30 |
Politeness | 43 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Addison and Steele Alexander Pope Arbuthnot aristocratic attitudes Beggar's Opera birth bourgeois C. J. Rawson Century Christian cited civility Clarendon Press classical commercial convention corrupt court wits Criticism cultural decorum demystified despite developments Dunciad E. P. Thompson Eighteenth elements elite England English epic Essay ethos example false sublime fashionable Gay's genteel Gentleman gentry genuine Horace ideal idleness imagery J. C. D. Clark John John Gay Jonson laureate poet leisure Leonard Welsted literary Literature London manners Matthew Prior McKeon Michael McKeon mock-heroic mode modern politeness moral norms obviously occasional verse old ideology Oxford panegyrical Parnell's pastoral patronage period poem poet poet's Poetics polish polite sentiment praise present Prior Prose quasi-aristocratic religious Renaissance Restoration court revealing role satire scepticism Scriblerian secular sense seriousness social society sprezzatura status stylishness Swift Thomas Parnell tion tone Tory town true University Press upper-class virtue Whig whole women write