Toward an Augustan Poetic : Edmund Waller's "Reform" of English Poetry /

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The almost universal adulation given Edmund Waller in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- an adulation which, often as not, attached to his reform of poetry -- has been commonly accepted with little question of the grounds on which it is based. In this essay Alexander Ward Allison...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allison, Alexander W. (Alexander Ward)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2015], 1962.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Waller, Edmund, > 1606-1687.
Augustus, > Emperor of Rome, > 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
Augustus, > Emperor of Rome, > 63 B.C.-14 A.D. > Influence.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
English poetry > Roman influences.
English poetry > Early modern.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The almost universal adulation given Edmund Waller in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- an adulation which, often as not, attached to his reform of poetry -- has been commonly accepted with little question of the grounds on which it is based. In this essay Alexander Ward Allison presents for the first time a specific analysis of the changes from Jacobean modes which Waller made, suggesting in the course of his analysis that the seventeenth century saw not a dissociation of sensibility, but rather a new fusion, of which Waller is a type. By a careful and detailed reading of.
Physical Description:1 online resource (112 pages).
ISBN:9780813161952

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