A travelling man : eighteenth-century bearings / Donald Davie ; edited with an introduction by Doreen Davie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davie, Donald.

Contributor:

Davie, Doreen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture--History--18th century.

Culture.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 283 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Carcanet, 2003.

Summary:

These essays by critic and poet Donald Davie explore the 18th century--its literature, its religion and politics, and its culture in the broadest sense. Critically engaged are Berkeley, Swift, Goldsmith, Smart, Cowper, Johnson, the Augustan lyric, the hymn writers, the Dissenters, and diction and irony. Areas of culture are made accessible that Romanticism and lazy reading have fenced off as dull and closed.

Contents:

The fountain

Introduction / by Doreen Davie

Berkeley's style in 'Siris'

Berkeley and 'Philosophic words'

Irony and conciseness in Berkeley and in Swift

Scientist; philosopher; poet

Berkeley and the style of dialogue

The language of science and the language of literature, 1700-1740

'The deserted village' : poem as virtual history

Dramatic poetry : Dryden's conversation-piece

The critical principles of William Cowper

Christopher Smart : some neglected poems

Yeats, Berkeley and romanticism - Augustan lyric

Trevenen

Politics and literature : John Adams and Doctor Johnson

Edward Taylor and Isaac Watts

Old dissent, 1700-1740

Dissent and the Wesleyans, 1740-1800

Notes on Goldsmith's politics

Goldsmith as monarchist

Disaffection of the dissenters under George III

Index.

ISBN:

1857546342

OCLC:

51840228