English Versions of Roman Satire in the Earlier Eighteenth CenturyThis book discusses Imitations of the ancient Roman verse satirists Horace, Juvenal, and Perseus published in Britain in the first half of the eighteenth century. It endeavors to put major writers such as Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson in the context of lesser writers of the period. It also devotes attention to other canonical writers such as Jonathan Swift, Henry Fielding, and Christopher Smart. |
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... Horace's sixth satire of the second book has aroused much interest , and that largely for biographical reasons . As ... Horace would ever have appeared in elaborate critical edi- tions had these obscure pieces not been by the authors of ...
... Horace's sixth satire of the second book has aroused much interest , and that largely for biographical reasons . As ... Horace would ever have appeared in elaborate critical edi- tions had these obscure pieces not been by the authors of ...
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... Horace's original , rather than on what his Imitations tell us about Swift himself either as a man or as a satirist ... Horace also wrote two books of epis- tles — three , if we count the Ars poetica as forming another book . Like the ...
... Horace's original , rather than on what his Imitations tell us about Swift himself either as a man or as a satirist ... Horace also wrote two books of epis- tles — three , if we count the Ars poetica as forming another book . Like the ...
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... Horace : 3 mitte levis spes et certamina divitiarum et Moschi causam . cras nato Caesare festus dat veniam somnumque ... Horace's " festus " —the term used in the Roman Catholic Church to denote a Holy Day — gave Swift the idea for some ...
... Horace : 3 mitte levis spes et certamina divitiarum et Moschi causam . cras nato Caesare festus dat veniam somnumque ... Horace's " festus " —the term used in the Roman Catholic Church to denote a Holy Day — gave Swift the idea for some ...
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Contents
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Imitators Imitating Swift Imitating Horace | 53 |
Alexander Popes Earlier Imitations of Horace | 64 |
Responses to Popes Earlier Imitations | 85 |
Pope and Horace The Later Period | 102 |
Imitations of Roman Satire in the Later 1730s | 136 |
The Imitation from 1740 to 1750 | 169 |
Conclusion | 212 |
Appendix | 223 |
Notes | 228 |
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English Versions of Roman Satire in the Earlier Eighteenth Century William Kupersmith No preview available - 2007 |
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