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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... amateur manu- script tradition , but the preservation of the old modes is neces- sarily now something of an attractive fiction . It is nevertheless a remarkable index of the conflation of aristo- cratic and commercial values that these ...
... amateur manu- script tradition , but the preservation of the old modes is neces- sarily now something of an attractive fiction . It is nevertheless a remarkable index of the conflation of aristo- cratic and commercial values that these ...
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... amateur pose , besides drawing positive strengths from the tradition . Parnell , Prior , and Gay were all published under the popular Poems on Several Occasions title , and Pope published a miscellany under the same title . Swift and ...
... amateur pose , besides drawing positive strengths from the tradition . Parnell , Prior , and Gay were all published under the popular Poems on Several Occasions title , and Pope published a miscellany under the same title . Swift and ...
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... amateur pose . As he himself said , " " Tis not the task of an Heroic Poet like myself to sing at marriages , burials , and Christenings etc. " 22 Throughout his whole career he pre- serves the idea of the laureate poet , with the ...
... amateur pose . As he himself said , " " Tis not the task of an Heroic Poet like myself to sing at marriages , burials , and Christenings etc. " 22 Throughout his whole career he pre- serves the idea of the laureate poet , with the ...
Inhalt
Preface | 7 |
Politics the Poet | 30 |
Politeness | 43 |
Urheberrecht | |
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