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Poetic Occasion From Milton to Wordsworth
John Dolan
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Description for Poetic Occasion From Milton to Wordsworth
Hardback. This work examines the evolution of the modern English lyric, emphasizing the way in which poets, reacting to post-Reformation readers' dislike for invented poetic narratives, competed for the right to commemorate important public occasions and expanded the range of acceptable occasions. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
John Dolan takes a new approach to the evolution of the modern English lyric, emphasising the way in which several generations of poets, reacting to post-Reformation readers' dislike for invented poetic narratives, competed for the right to commemorate important public occasions and slowly expanded the range of acceptable occasion. This book demonstrates that many fundamental features of a typical modern lyric actually evolved as responses to the limitations of occasional poetry.
John Dolan takes a new approach to the evolution of the modern English lyric, emphasising the way in which several generations of poets, reacting to post-Reformation readers' dislike for invented poetic narratives, competed for the right to commemorate important public occasions and slowly expanded the range of acceptable occasion. This book demonstrates that many fundamental features of a typical modern lyric actually evolved as responses to the limitations of occasional poetry.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
Series
Early Modern Literature in History
Number of Pages
219
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333733585
SKU
V9780333733585
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99-15
About John Dolan
JOHN DOLAN is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (1993 to date). From 1985 to 1992 he was lecturer in the Rhetoric Department of the University of California at Berkeley. He has published scholarly work on eighteenth-century poetry and prose, and on twentieth-century poetry, especially the work of Wallace Stevens, as well as two ... Read more
Reviews for Poetic Occasion From Milton to Wordsworth
'This most readable study of literary history not only reveals the well springs of Romanticism in eighteenth-century poetry but, like all thoughtful rhetorical analyses, sheds new light on writers and readers, on their creative and interpretative impulses.' - Professor Thomas O. Sloane, University of California, Berkeley