The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope |
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... duty was to his country and his native language ; his poem was to be a British epic . This was not in itself an original conception . During the last ten years he had tested devotional , platonic , and aristocratic modes of poetry ; now ...
... duty was to his country and his native language ; his poem was to be a British epic . This was not in itself an original conception . During the last ten years he had tested devotional , platonic , and aristocratic modes of poetry ; now ...
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... duty and with experience ; he finally lost his sight after writing the First Defence , and explained in ' To Mr Cyriack Skinner upon his blindness ' his complete acceptance of this sacrifice : What supports me dost thou ask ? The ...
... duty and with experience ; he finally lost his sight after writing the First Defence , and explained in ' To Mr Cyriack Skinner upon his blindness ' his complete acceptance of this sacrifice : What supports me dost thou ask ? The ...
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... duty to cooperate with the government whose work they are hindering . In his treatment of order Marvell uses ideas and language from royalist tradition , though in such a way as not to exclude republican opinion . The paradox is stated ...
... duty to cooperate with the government whose work they are hindering . In his treatment of order Marvell uses ideas and language from royalist tradition , though in such a way as not to exclude republican opinion . The paradox is stated ...
Contents
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THE NATURE OF ARISTOCRACY | 21 |
POETS AND REVOLUTION | 73 |
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Absalom and Achitophel ambition Andrew Marvell attempt attitudes Bolingbroke century Charles Charles's Chloridia conflict conservative constitution country house poem court and country critical Cromwell Cromwell's defends divine Dryden Dunciad emphasis England English epic Epistle Essay ethic Exclusion Crisis fame function gentry harmony heroic honour human Hymenaei idea ideal idealised Imitations of Horace implied individual interest James James's John Dryden John Milton Jonson king Kinsley liberty London Marvell Marvell's masque means Milton monarchy moral myth nation nature nobility opposition Oxford panegyric Paradise Paradise Lost parliament party patriotism peace Penshurst Pindaric play poem poet poetic poetry political Pope Pope's position praise prerogative prince problem Protectorate reformation reign relation relationship religious Restoration retirement Revolution role royal royalist satire seen sense seventeenth social society Stoic Stoicism Swift theory Tory Toryism tradition values virtue Whigs Windsor Forest writing