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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... turn take the form of an argument about town and country life . The superficial and unnatural life of the town can be contrasted with the plain living of the country , or the social climbing of the former set against the settled ...
... turn take the form of an argument about town and country life . The superficial and unnatural life of the town can be contrasted with the plain living of the country , or the social climbing of the former set against the settled ...
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... . Freed from the more impersonal genres , " occa- sional " poets can turn more of their lives into poetry . An interest in something approximating to poetic autobiography appears in a poem 40 POLITENESS AND POETRY IN THE AGE OF POPE.
... . Freed from the more impersonal genres , " occa- sional " poets can turn more of their lives into poetry . An interest in something approximating to poetic autobiography appears in a poem 40 POLITENESS AND POETRY IN THE AGE OF POPE.
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... turn . In each case the young man seems to act with striking and sometimes crimi- nal injustice , but at the end he is revealed to be an angel and his behavior is explained and vindicated . Parnell's version refines the content of the ...
... turn . In each case the young man seems to act with striking and sometimes crimi- nal injustice , but at the end he is revealed to be an angel and his behavior is explained and vindicated . Parnell's version refines the content of the ...
Inhalt
Preface | 7 |
Politics the Poet | 30 |
Politeness | 43 |
Urheberrecht | |
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