Nothing to admire: the politics of poetic satire from Dryden to Merrill
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Main Author: Yu, Christopher (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2003
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-211) and index
Satura redux : Dryden and the Augustan ideal -- Arm'd for virtue : pope as cultural liberal -- Byron, laughter, and legitimation -- Auden in the polis of the absurd -- Imbued with otherness : Merrill's mock-epics of desire
This work argues for the persistence of a central tradition of poetic satire in English that extends from Restoration England to present-day America. The tradition is seen as rooted in the uses of Augustan metaphor to criticize the abuse of social and political power and to promote freedom of mind
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (219 pages)
ISBN:1280502320
1423762932
1602569762
9781280502323
9781423762935
9781602569768

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