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Nothing to admire : the politics of poetic satire from Dryden to Merrill

Author: Christopher Yu
Publisher: London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Nothing to Admire argues for the persistence of a central tradition of poetic satire in English that extends from Restoration England to present-day America. This tradition is rooted in John Dryden's and Alexander Pope's uses of Augustan metaphor to criticize the abuse of social and political power and to promote an antithetical ideal of satiric authority based on freedom of mind. Because of their commitment to  Read more...
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Named Person: James Ingram Merrill; James Ingram Merrill; James Ingram Merrill
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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"Nothing to Admire argues for the persistence of a central tradition of poetic satire in English that extends from Restoration England to present-day America. This tradition is rooted in John Dryden's and Alexander Pope's uses of Augustan metaphor to criticize the abuse of social and political power and to promote an antithetical ideal of satiric authority based on freedom of mind. Because of their commitment to neoclassical conceptions of political virtue, the British Augustans developed a meritocratic cultural ideal grounded in poetic judgment and opposed to the political institutions and practices of their superiors in birth, wealth, and might. Their Augustanism thus gives a political meaning to the Horatian principle of nil admirari. This book calls the resulting outlook "cultural liberalism" in order to distinguish it from the classical liberal insistence on private property as the basis of political liberty, a conviction that arises within the same general period and often stands in adversarial relation to the Augustan mentality."--BOOK JACKET.

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