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

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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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.
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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