The Daring Muse is a challenging account of the richness and
complexity of Augustan poetry. It takes in a broad range of writers
from the Restoration to the Regency, from Rochester and Dryden to
Cowper and Crabbe, and shows the essential connections between
them. Augustan poetry has too often been thought of as uniform,
staidly classical, even dull. Margaret Doody explodes this myth
once and for all. She shows it to be poetry of great energy and
diversity: of extravagant conceits, subversive parody, incessant
stylistic and formal experimentation; a self-consciously innovative
poetry that sought to express and extend the perpetual, restless
activity of the human mind. Both the principles and techniques of
the verse are related to similar elements in the novels of the
period; the book's numerous illustrations help to show how the
poems were presented and interpreted in their own time.
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