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Augustan Studies (Hardcover)
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Augustan Studies (Hardcover)
Series: Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism
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It is still true that most readers of eighteenth-century poetry
approach it by way of nineteenth-century poetry; they know what
Wordsworth said about Pope before they read Pope. This means that
when they read Pope and other eighteenth-century poets, they apply
the wrong criteria. An eighteenth-century poet did not have to
create the taste by which he was enjoyed to the same extent as a
nineteenth-century poet was conscious of having to. The kinds were
ready waiting for him, and, if the rules of poetic diction for the
kinds of which he elected to write were properly complied with, the
products were recognisable: epic, tragedy in verse, Pindaric,
elegy, heroic and familiar epistle, pastoral, georgic, occasional
verse, translation and imitation. This book, a collection of essays
by Dr Tillotson, examines these types of eighteenth-century poetry
with particular focus on poetic diction, as well as discussing
works such as Pope's letters and Johnson's dictionary.
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