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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... elite . The idea of learn- ing as the only true gentility was strong in the early Renaissance , but the debate really becomes the focus for the struggles and then the accommodations between an older aristocracy and a newer elite of ...
... elite . The idea of learn- ing as the only true gentility was strong in the early Renaissance , but the debate really becomes the focus for the struggles and then the accommodations between an older aristocracy and a newer elite of ...
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... elite to turn Christian idealism against it . According to Marvell it was the civil wars and their aftermath that finally made a Ciceronian moral commitment to public life impossible : " These vertues now are banisht out of Towne ...
... elite to turn Christian idealism against it . According to Marvell it was the civil wars and their aftermath that finally made a Ciceronian moral commitment to public life impossible : " These vertues now are banisht out of Towne ...
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... elite education in the classics that each of these poets has received inclines them to the ancients ' party in liter- ature and learning . They delight to attack modern presumptions . Their classicism unites with their landed bias in ...
... elite education in the classics that each of these poets has received inclines them to the ancients ' party in liter- ature and learning . They delight to attack modern presumptions . Their classicism unites with their landed bias in ...
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Preface | 7 |
Politics the Poet | 30 |
Politeness | 43 |
Urheberrecht | |
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