The World of Pope's Satires
Author : Peter Dixon
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Release : 1968
Category : Satire, English
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Author : Peter Dixon
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File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Satire, English
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Author : Peter Dixon
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File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : Peter DIXON (Lecturer in English.)
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Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : Peter Dixon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 13,20 MB
Release : 2022-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 100053149X
First published in 1968, The World of Pope’s Satires is a stimulating and challenging book showing how the satires written by Pope during the 1730s were not only expressions of his own .poetic personality but were also responsive to the habits and attitudes of the age. The author considers Pope’s uses of some current conversational technique (especially that of ‘raillery’) and of the closely related social ideal of the cultivated gentleman. Pope’s regard for certain personal attributes and moral values – notably hospitality, integrity, friendship, charity and self-knowledge – is examined in two ways; as it expresses itself positively in the satires, and as it is defined negatively by his antipathy towards courtly self-seeking and hypocrisy, contemporary manifestations of acquisitiveness, and the pride associated with neo-stoicism. The final chapter is wide ranging and shows that although Pope is at times representative, and therefore limited, in his response to the pressures and uncertainties of the age, his satires live because of the subtlety of his treatment of such Augustan commonplaces as Order and Balance and the passion and spirit of his writing. This will be an interesting read for students of English literature.
Author : Horace
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,61 MB
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368342843
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Author : Horace
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Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,41 MB
Release : 1892
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Author : Horace
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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Latin poetry
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Author : Horace
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 2005-12-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0140455086
Inspiring poets from Ben Jonson and Alexander Pope to W. H. Auden and Robert Frost, the writings of Horace and Persius have had a powerful influence on later Western literature. The Satires of Persius are highly idiosyncratic, containing a courageous attack on the poetry and morals of his wealthy contemporaries—even the ruling emperor, Nero. The Satires of Horace, written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus’s regime, provide an amusing treatment of men’s perennial enslavement to money, power, glory, and sex. Epistles I, addressed to the poet’s friends, deals with the problem of achieving contentment amid the complexities of urban life, while Epistles II and the Ars Poetica discuss Latin poetry—its history and social functions, and the craft required for its success. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Page : 258 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 1838
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Author : Horace
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Page : 182 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Rome
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