Toward an Augustan Poetic [electronic resource] : Edmund Waller's "Reform" of English Poetry

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allison, Alexander W. (Alexander Ward)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Roman influences.

English poetry.

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D--Influence.

Augustus.

Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.

Waller, Edmund.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (112 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Lexington, Kentucky] : University of Kentucky Press, 1962.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The almost universal adulation given Edmund Waller in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- an adulation which, often as not, attached to his reform of poetry -- has been commonly accepted with little question of the grounds on which it is based. In this essay Alexander Ward Allison presents for the first time a specific analysis of the changes from Jacobean modes which Waller made, suggesting in the course of his analysis that the seventeenth century saw not a dissociation of sensibility, but rather a new fusion, of which Waller is a type.By a careful and detailed reading of

Contents:

COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1. INTRODUCTORY; 2. WALLER'S DEPARTURES FROM JACOBEAN PRACTICE; 3. THE REFINEEMENT OF OUR LANGUAGE; 4. WIT AND JUDGMENT; 5. THE REFORM OF OUR NUMBERS; APPENDIX; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; O; P; R; S; T; V; W

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliography.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-6195-9

OCLC:

580760235