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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
[2015], 1962.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (112 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780813161952 |