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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... write on mores with a proper seriousness seemed to require either the ideological assurance of the old laureate mode or an expansive enthusiasm for the new ethos . Talented poets with aristocratic or quasi - aristocratic sympathies were ...
... write on mores with a proper seriousness seemed to require either the ideological assurance of the old laureate mode or an expansive enthusiasm for the new ethos . Talented poets with aristocratic or quasi - aristocratic sympathies were ...
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... write in the full tradition of laureate verse even if the patronage had been available and the cultural climate more inviting . He is very much a poet of the party of wit . He writes a few poems like " A Con- templation on Night " and ...
... write in the full tradition of laureate verse even if the patronage had been available and the cultural climate more inviting . He is very much a poet of the party of wit . He writes a few poems like " A Con- templation on Night " and ...
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... writing , as here , from a more assured moral perspective . In po- etry he has an inhibiting sense of the elevation and responsibility required to write properly on mores . The evasion of the respon- sibility produces deliberate brevity ...
... writing , as here , from a more assured moral perspective . In po- etry he has an inhibiting sense of the elevation and responsibility required to write properly on mores . The evasion of the respon- sibility produces deliberate brevity ...
Inhalt
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