Politeness and Poetry in the Age of PopeFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1989 - 166 pages Interest in politeness in the eighteenth century is shown to reflect anxiety about social change and indicate a search for guidelines in a newly commercialized society. Evident is the dilemma of poets such as Parnell, Prior, Swift, Gay, and Pope. |
Contents
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This Potent School of Manners Politics the Poet and Mores | 30 |
Alike Fantastick If Too New or Old Politeness and the Dilemma of Traditionalist Poets | 43 |
Softest Manners Gentlest Arts The Polite Verse of Thomas Parnell | 55 |
A Grace a Manner a Decorum Matthew Priors Polite Mystique | 70 |
John Gays Due Civilities The Ironies of Politeness | 86 |
A Kind of Artificial Good Sense Swift and the Forms of Politeness | 102 |
To Form the Manners Pope and the Poetry of Mores | 116 |
Notes | 135 |
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