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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... remains of so excellent a writer as the late Dr. Parnell , " 4 and the comment combines literary , social , and religious disparagement . But the later Parnell might well have agreed himself . He has moved toward politeness . His ...
... remains of so excellent a writer as the late Dr. Parnell , " 4 and the comment combines literary , social , and religious disparagement . But the later Parnell might well have agreed himself . He has moved toward politeness . His ...
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... remains evidently conservative , even when he condemns upper - class behavior . The proud assertion that his moral indignation overcomes any social snobbery " And who unknown defame me , let them be / Scriblers or Peers " is itself ...
... remains evidently conservative , even when he condemns upper - class behavior . The proud assertion that his moral indignation overcomes any social snobbery " And who unknown defame me , let them be / Scriblers or Peers " is itself ...
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... remains a kind of testimony that Pope is not going outside the bounds of politeness unawares . In the " Epilogue to the Satires , " as Thomas R. Edwards points out , the satiric adversarius , the " friend , " is Pope too , but " in him ...
... remains a kind of testimony that Pope is not going outside the bounds of politeness unawares . In the " Epilogue to the Satires , " as Thomas R. Edwards points out , the satiric adversarius , the " friend , " is Pope too , but " in him ...
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Preface | 7 |
Politics the Poet | 30 |
Politeness | 43 |
Urheberrecht | |
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