Triumph of Augustan Poetics - English Literary Culture From Butler to Johnson

Zusammenfassung This book offers an important re-evaluation of the transition from Baroque to Augustan in English literature. Analysing works by Butler! Pope! Thomson! Johnson! and many others! Blanford Parker's account explains the origins of Augustan satire! its momentous departure from earlier models! and the subsequent creation of a new poetry of nature and everyday life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Samuel Butler and the end of analogy; 2. Transitional Augustan poetry; 3. Pope and mature Augustanism; 4. Thomson and the invention of the literal; 5. The four poles of the Christian imagination in relation to Augustanism; 6. The fideist reaction; 7. Johnson and fideism; Index.

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• Authors: Parker Blanford, Blanford Parker, Blanford (College of Staten Island) Parker
• Assisted by: Howard Erskine-Hill (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.06.1998
• EAN: 9780521590884
• ISBN: 978-0-521-59088-4
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies