Margaret J. M. Ezell
- Published in print:
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- eISBN:
- 9780191849572
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780191849572.003.0019
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
There were three poets laureate in the last decade of the century: John Dryden, Thomas Shadwell, and Nahum Tate, all of whom had begun their careers writing for the stage. Poets active during this ...
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There were three poets laureate in the last decade of the century: John Dryden, Thomas Shadwell, and Nahum Tate, all of whom had begun their careers writing for the stage. Poets active during this time included Anne Finch, who was circulating her verses in manuscript among friends and compiling manuscript collections, and Mary Astell, who created a manuscript volume of verse for Archbishop Sancroft. Prolific poets in print included Sir Richard Blackmore, Samuel Garth, and Matthew Prior, who all published in miscellany collections. Jonathan Swift began publishing occasional verse in periodicals including the Athenian GazetteLess
There were three poets laureate in the last decade of the century: John Dryden, Thomas Shadwell, and Nahum Tate, all of whom had begun their careers writing for the stage. Poets active during this time included Anne Finch, who was circulating her verses in manuscript among friends and compiling manuscript collections, and Mary Astell, who created a manuscript volume of verse for Archbishop Sancroft. Prolific poets in print included Sir Richard Blackmore, Samuel Garth, and Matthew Prior, who all published in miscellany collections. Jonathan Swift began publishing occasional verse in periodicals including the Athenian Gazette
Anthony Welch
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198769774
- eISBN:
- 9780191822605
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198769774.003.0026
- Subject:
- Literature, Milton Studies, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
Tracing early forms of Miltonic parody, travesty, and burlesque from Dryden to Pope, this chapter argues that the period’s mock-heroic responses to Paradise Lost were closely tied to the fortunes of ...
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Tracing early forms of Miltonic parody, travesty, and burlesque from Dryden to Pope, this chapter argues that the period’s mock-heroic responses to Paradise Lost were closely tied to the fortunes of traditional epic and heroic poetry in England. Milton’s mock-epic heirs grappled with his poetry not in isolated single combats, but in ongoing confrontations with competing cultural forms, rival interpretations, and appropriations of Paradise Lost that laid their own claims to Milton’s art. Early mock-heroic writers took a special interest in the uses and misuses of Milton’s poem within the English neoclassical epic tradition. The chapter shows how a diverse group of writers exploited the comic strains in Paradise Lost to satirize the heroic poetry of Richard Blackmore, Samuel Wesley, John Dennis, and their Williamite allies, in a contest over both Milton’s legacy and the cultural status of Europe’s epic canon.Less
Tracing early forms of Miltonic parody, travesty, and burlesque from Dryden to Pope, this chapter argues that the period’s mock-heroic responses to Paradise Lost were closely tied to the fortunes of traditional epic and heroic poetry in England. Milton’s mock-epic heirs grappled with his poetry not in isolated single combats, but in ongoing confrontations with competing cultural forms, rival interpretations, and appropriations of Paradise Lost that laid their own claims to Milton’s art. Early mock-heroic writers took a special interest in the uses and misuses of Milton’s poem within the English neoclassical epic tradition. The chapter shows how a diverse group of writers exploited the comic strains in Paradise Lost to satirize the heroic poetry of Richard Blackmore, Samuel Wesley, John Dennis, and their Williamite allies, in a contest over both Milton’s legacy and the cultural status of Europe’s epic canon.
