Author: Jonathan SwiftPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin
Author: Jonathan SwiftA Statistical, Political, and Historical Account of the United States of North America
Author: David Bailie WardenPublisher: Edinburgh : Printed for Archibald Constable
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The Literary Gazette
Author: American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular
Author: The Edinburgh Review
Author: The Poetical Works
Author: CrabbThe Microbook Library of English Literature: 1660 to 1784
Author: Library Resources, incPublisher:
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Category : Books on microfilm
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc
Author: William JerdanThe London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc
Author: A Self-divided Poet
Author: Rodney Stenning EdgecombePublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443806498
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Whereas Thomas Hood has long been regarded as a minor comic poet, this book--the first to devote itself exclusively to his verse--provides a detailed analysis of two "serious" poems ("Hero and Leander" and "The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies") so as to give a better sense of his range. Most commentators have pointed to the influence of Keats on such occasions, but close examination reveals an even greater debt to Elizabethan and Metaphysical poets, whose sometimes playful deployment of the conceit struck a chord in his sensibility. At the same time, the book gives Hood's comic genius its due, supplying detailed accounts of the deftness and panache of his light-hearted oeuvre. One chapter examines his excursion into the mock-heroic mode (Odes and Addresses to Great People), and another his reliance on that airiest of forms, the capriccio (Whims and Oddities). The study concludes with an extensive examination of "Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg," showing how Hood was here able to inflect a jeu d'esprit with a fine Juvenalian passion.