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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Irving, William Henry. Providence of wit in the English letter writers. Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1955 (OCoLC)586757078 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
William Henry Irving |
| OCLC Number: | 1220784 |
| Description: | 382 p. 24 cm. |
| Contents: | ch. 1. Classical models -- ch. 2. French and continental practice -- ch. 3. Early English experiments -- ch. 4. Grub Street activity -Edmund Curll -- ch. 5. Augustan attitudes -Steele and Addison -- ch. 6. Pope and the Scriblerians -- ch. 7. More great names -Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu, Chesterfield, Gray -- ch. 8. Lady Suffolk, Orrery, Shenstone and the school of sentiment -- ch. 9. Johnson and the Johnsonian tinge -- ch. 10. The bluestockings -- ch. 11. Walpole and Cowper -- ch. 12. The Scotch letter writers. |
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