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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... Smart . The first chapter discusses an anonymous Imitation of Juvenal's thirteenth satire pub- lished in 1707 , The Merchant's Advocate . Though of little poetic merit , the poem is historically important as the first application of a ...
... Smart . The first chapter discusses an anonymous Imitation of Juvenal's thirteenth satire pub- lished in 1707 , The Merchant's Advocate . Though of little poetic merit , the poem is historically important as the first application of a ...
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... Smart . We are grateful to the work of twentieth - century editors that we have their Imitations of Horace or of Juvenal in reliable and gen- erally well - annotated editions . But for how many were their Imita- tions major works of ...
... Smart . We are grateful to the work of twentieth - century editors that we have their Imitations of Horace or of Juvenal in reliable and gen- erally well - annotated editions . But for how many were their Imita- tions major works of ...
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... Smart , it is inconceivable that their respective Imita- tions of the sixth satire of Juvenal and of the third satire of the first book of Horace would ever have appeared in elaborate critical edi- tions had these obscure pieces not ...
... Smart , it is inconceivable that their respective Imita- tions of the sixth satire of Juvenal and of the third satire of the first book of Horace would ever have appeared in elaborate critical edi- tions had these obscure pieces not ...
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... Smart himself , but who seem drawn to the Horatian Imitation by the charm of their hero's public persona as the easy and detached ob- server of other men's follies . ( A pose Pope rarely maintained for long . ) As poetry , little of ...
... Smart himself , but who seem drawn to the Horatian Imitation by the charm of their hero's public persona as the easy and detached ob- server of other men's follies . ( A pose Pope rarely maintained for long . ) As poetry , little of ...
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... Smart — most of them are unobtainable except in a few rare book collections or on micro- film , which is a nuisance to use . Of course when I first began this project three decades ago , I had hoped to unearth an unknown mas- terpiece ...
... Smart — most of them are unobtainable except in a few rare book collections or on micro- film , which is a nuisance to use . Of course when I first began this project three decades ago , I had hoped to unearth an unknown mas- terpiece ...
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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