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| Named Person: | James Merrill; James Ingram Merrill; James Ingram Merrill |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Christopher Yu |
| ISBN: | 0195155300 9780195155303 |
| OCLC Number: | 50693025 |
| Description: | 219 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Satura redux : Dryden and the Augustan ideal -- Arm'd for virtue : pope as cultural liberal -- Byron, laughter, and legitimation -- Auden in the polis of the absurd -- Imbued with otherness : Merrill's mock-epics of desire. |
| Responsibility: | Christopher Yu. |
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<br>"Chistopher Yu's Nothing to Admire: The Politics of Poetic Satire from Dryden to Merrill in fact gives us plenty to admire. This is a learned, intelligent, and sophisticated book that traces the unfolding of a liberal politics of satire from the late seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century.... This is superb reading, Yu catching the rhythms and exact colors of Dryden's writing, and he reads Pope with the same clarity, suggestiveness, and intuitive sense of the poetic text." --Studies in English Literature 1500-1900<br>"Christopher Yu has written a beautiful and an important book. It is important because it illuminates how the liberal tradition in politics and the poetic imagination have nourished each other for more than three hundred years. It is beautiful because it is uncommonly well-written: everywhere elegant, precise and free of jargon; everywhere attentive to the arts of language that give form and expression to the political concerns of the poets under examination. Read more...
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- Poésie satirique anglaise -- Histoire et critique.
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- Poésie politique américaine -- Histoire et critique.
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- Merrill, James Ingram
- Satire
- Geschichte 1680-1973.
- Englisch
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