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... satiric topics and character types , was imitated from the Roman satirist Persius ( AD34–62 ) , from Juvenal and the epigrams of Martial . The new satire of the late 1590s , besides being ruthless , raucous and obscure , uses an ...
... satiric topics and character types , was imitated from the Roman satirist Persius ( AD34–62 ) , from Juvenal and the epigrams of Martial . The new satire of the late 1590s , besides being ruthless , raucous and obscure , uses an ...
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... satire and eventually verse epistle flourished during the Restoration , the smaller , more subjective poetic forms were increasingly regarded as trivial games in minor genres . The short Cavalier lyric became a facile exercise in ...
... satire and eventually verse epistle flourished during the Restoration , the smaller , more subjective poetic forms were increasingly regarded as trivial games in minor genres . The short Cavalier lyric became a facile exercise in ...
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... satires . The disorderly movements of the speaker correspond to the society portrayed , and both the speaker and those he meets are presented as characters . ' A Letter from Artemisa ' , a complex satire within a satire , using two ...
... satires . The disorderly movements of the speaker correspond to the society portrayed , and both the speaker and those he meets are presented as characters . ' A Letter from Artemisa ' , a complex satire within a satire , using two ...
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