Alexander Pope and the Traditions of Formal Verse Satire /

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Ranging over the tradition of verse satire from the Roman poets to their seventeenth- and eighteenth-century imitators in England and France, Howard D. Weinbrot challenges the common view of Alexander Pope as a Horatian satirist in a Horatian age. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy L...

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Main Author: Weinbrot, Howard D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1982]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Pope, Alexander, > 1688-1744.
Pope, Alexander, > 1688-1744 > Criticism and interpretation.
Verse satire.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
POETRY > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Poesie satirique > Histoire et critique.
Verse satire > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Editorial Notes
  • CHAPTER 1. Horace and Juvenal in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  • CHAPTER 2. Roman Modes of Proceeding: Classical Satire and Norms in Government
  • CHAPTER 3. Boileau: "As Horace did before me, so will I"
  • CHAPTER 4. British Modes of Proceeding: National Character and Satiric Forms
  • CHAPTER 5. Responses to Pope
  • CHAPTER 6. Pope's Epistles to Several Persons: A System of Ethics in the Horatian Way
  • CHAPTER 7. The Mingled Muse: Pope's First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated
  • CHAPTER 8. An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot: The Education of an Opposition Satirist
  • CHAPTER 10. Conclusion
  • Translations of French Passages
  • Index.

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