Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Editor's preface. Life of Samuel Johnson. Abraham Cowley. Sir John Denham. John Milton. Samuel Butler. Earl of Rochester. Earl of Roscommon. Thomas Otway. Edmund Waller. John Dryden. John Pomfret. Earl of Dorset. George Stepney. John Philips. William Walsh. Edmund Smith. Richard Duke. William King. Thomas Sprat. Earl of Halifax. Thomas Parnell. Samuel Garth. Nicholas Rowe, Joseph Addison. John Hughes. John Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire. Matthew Prior
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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The Works of the British Poets: Milton, Cowley, Waller, Butler, and Denham
Author: Robert AndersonPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Oxford Historical and Literary Studies
Author: Charles Harding FirthPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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A Preface to Swift
Author: Keith CrookPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317888316
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Jonathan Swift's moral and political satires astonished his contemporaries and still have the power to disturb, with their compelling images and unsettling turns of argument, and to delight, with their charm and inventive wit. A Preface to Swift examines the complex appeal of this fierce critic of oppression. While thematically arranged, the text follows a broadly chronological account of Swift's life to show his development as a writer from the prolific and inventive iconoclast to the mature satirist whose enduring memory of past events produced warm friendship as well as strong resentment. It considers in detail his engagement with the corruption of over-secure politicians and his opposition to the easy rationalism of free-thinking pundits. Gulliver's Travels is shown to be a coherent critique of eighteenth-century ideas of science, education and politics in which the order of the books ('the progress of the fable') is highly significant for its whole meaning. While this is a major focus, Keith Crook also discusses a wide range of Swift's other works, including his early satires, his political writings, his poems and his letters. Detailed chronological charts place his life and works in the political and cultural context, and illustrations have been chosen with commentaries to extend the reader's sense of Swift's connections with London, Ireland and his contemporaries. This will be a particularly useful introduction to students who are studying satire as a genre; the early eighteenth-century literary, scientific, philosophical and political context; the representation of women; the political relation of Ireland to England; and the position of the artist within society, especially in connection with the levers of power.
A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Milton. Cowley. Waller. Butler. Denham
Author: Edmund Waller (1606–1687)
Author: Philip MajorPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004523138
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This product gives access to both the Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture and Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur Online. From Europe to America to the Middle East, North Africa and other non-European Jewish settlement areas the Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture covers the recent history of the Jews from 1750 until the 1950s.
The Lives of the English Poets
Author: A Bibliography of Samuel Johnson
Author: William Prideaux CourtneyPublisher:
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Author: Robert Anderson