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Poetry and the Creation of a Whig Literary Culture 1681-1714 (Hardcover)
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Poetry and the Creation of a Whig Literary Culture 1681-1714 (Hardcover)
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Poetry and the Creation of a Whig Literary Culture offers a new
perspective on early eighteenth century poetry and literary
culture, arguing that long-neglected Whig poets such as Joseph
Addison, John Dennis, Thomas Tickell, and Richard Blackmore were
more popular and successful in their own time than they have been
since. These and other Whig writers produced elevated poetry
celebrating the political and military achievements of William
III's Britain, and were committed to an ambitious project to create
a distinctively Whiggish English literary culture after the
Revolution of 1688. Far from being the penniless hacks and dunces
satirized by John Dryden and the Scriblerians, they were supported
by the patronage of the wealthy Whig aristocracy, and their works
promoted as a new English literature to rival that of classical
Greece and Rome. Poetry and the Creation of a Whig Literary Culture
maps for the first time the evolution of an alternative early
eighteenth-century poetic tradition which is central to our
understanding of the literary history of the period.
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