The Augustan VisionMethuen, 1978 - 318 páginas |
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... satire - was given a specially convenient stick to carry out its habitual beating . And we find in Swift , Gay , Pope and Fielding an unusually direct assault on contemporary leaders in the state . Earlier satire had generally been ...
... satire - was given a specially convenient stick to carry out its habitual beating . And we find in Swift , Gay , Pope and Fielding an unusually direct assault on contemporary leaders in the state . Earlier satire had generally been ...
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... satire in this age lay in a creative re- moulding process - what Dryden and his successors were about was akin to ... satire ' , with allegorical motifs replaced by naturalistic detail . Pope's description of the death of Villiers ...
... satire in this age lay in a creative re- moulding process - what Dryden and his successors were about was akin to ... satire ' , with allegorical motifs replaced by naturalistic detail . Pope's description of the death of Villiers ...
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... satire , as to the novel , was very great . His view that laughter should be well - bred , not excessive , calculated to promote harmony rather than discord , is now an unpopular one . We find the violent incongruities uncovered by ...
... satire , as to the novel , was very great . His view that laughter should be well - bred , not excessive , calculated to promote harmony rather than discord , is now an unpopular one . We find the violent incongruities uncovered by ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Landscape of the Age | 5 |
The Shape of Society | 7 |
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