The Letters of Thomas Burnet to George Duckett
Author | : Sir Thomas Burnet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Sir Thomas Burnet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Joseph Hone |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2021-01-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192580914 |
How did Alexander Pope become the greatest poet of the eighteenth century? Modern scholarship has typically taken Pope's rise to greatness and subsequent remoteness from lesser authors for granted. As a major poet he is treated as the successor of Milton and Dryden or the precursor of Wordsworth. Drawing on previously neglected texts and overlooked archival materials, Alexander Pope in the Making immerses the poet in his milieux, providing a substantial new account of Pope's early career, from the earliest traces of manuscript circulation to the publication of his collected Works and beyond. In this book, Joseph Hone illuminates classic poems such as An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, and Windsor-Forest by setting them alongside lesser-known texts by Pope and his contempories, many of which have never received sustained critical attention before. Pope's earliest experiments in satire, panegyric, lyric, pastoral, and epic are all explored alongside his translations, publication strategies, and neglected editorial projects. By recovering values shared by Pope and the politically heterodox men and women whose works he read and with whom he collaborated, this book constructs powerful new interpretive frameworks for some of the eighteenth century's most celebrated poems. Alexander Pope in the Making mounts a comprehensive challenge to the 'Scriblerian' paradigm that has dominated scholarship for the past eighty years. It sheds fresh light on Pope's early career and reshapes our understanding of the ideological landscape of his era. This book will be essential reading for scholars and students of eighteenth-century literature, history, and politics.
Author | : |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Ernest Harold Pearce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Charities |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Pat Rogers |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2004-03-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 031306153X |
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was the most important English poet of the 18th century, as well as an essayist, satirist, and critic. Many of his sayings are still quoted today. His Essay on Criticism shaped the aesthetic views of English Neoclassicism, while his Essay on Man reflected the moral views of the Enlightenment. He participated fully in the critical debates of his time and was one of the few poets who supported himself through his writing. This reference conveniently summarizes his life and works. Included are several-hundred alphabetically arranged entries on Pope's works, subjects that interested him, historical events that impacted Pope's life and work, cultural terms and categories, Pope's family members and acquaintances, major scholars and critics, and various other topics related to his writings. The entries reflect current scholarship and cite works for further reading. The encyclopedia also provides a chronology and concludes with a selected, general bibliography. Because of Pope's central importance to the Enlightenment, this book is also a useful companion to 18th-century literary and intellectual culture.
Author | : Paul Baines |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 689 |
Release | : 2010-12-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1444390082 |
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing1660-1789 features coverage of the lives and works of almost 500 notable writers based in the British Isles from the return of the British monarchy in 1660 until the French Revolution of 1789. Broad coverage of writers and texts presents a new picture of 18th-century British authorship Takes advantage of newly expanded eighteenth-century canon to include significantly more women writers and labouring-class writers than have traditionally been studied Draws on the latest scholarship to more accurately reflect the literary achievements of the long eighteenth century
Author | : Andrew Starkie |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843832887 |
First full account of the vital struggle for Church and State in England after the accession of George I.
Author | : Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1018 |
Release | : 2022-09-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009301969 |
This comprehensive and authoritative edition of the correspondence of Daniel Defoe situates each letter in its biographical, literary, and historical contexts. A unique source for a turbulent period of British history, Defoe's correspondence spans topics including the first age of party marked by Tory and Whig rivalry, religious tensions between the Church and Dissenters, the uncertainty of the monarchical succession, the birth of Great Britain and its establishment as a global empire, and the use of the press to mould public opinion. As well as an introduction discussing Defoe's epistolary habits and the distinctive features of his letters, headnotes and annotations explain each document's occasion, beginning in 1703 with Defoe hunted by the government for sedition, and ending in 1730 with him again in hiding, fleeing creditors months before his death. The volume is illustrated with examples of Defoe's letters, offering a fresh window onto Defoe's manuscript habits.
Author | : John Matthews Manly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lucy Worsley |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2023-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1639734708 |
Kensington Palace is now most famous as the former home of Diana, Princess of Wales, but the palace's glory days came between 1714 and 1760, during the reigns of George I and II . In the eighteenth century, this palace was a world of skulduggery, intrigue, politicking, etiquette, wigs, and beauty spots, where fans whistled open like switchblades and unusual people were kept as curiosities. Lucy Worsley's The Courtiers charts the trajectory of the fantastically quarrelsome Hanovers and the last great gasp of British court life. Structured around the paintings of courtiers and servants that line the walls of the King's Staircase of Kensington Palace-paintings you can see at the palace today-The Courtiers goes behind closed doors to meet a pushy young painter, a maid of honor with a secret marriage, a vice chamberlain with many vices, a bedchamber woman with a violent husband, two aging royal mistresses, and many more. The result is an indelible portrait of court life leading up to the famous reign of George III , and a feast for both Anglophiles and lovers of history and royalty.