The Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry ReconsideredThe Daring Muse is a challenging account of the richness and complexity of Augustan poetry. It takes in a broad range of writers from the Restoration to the Regency, from Rochester and Dryden to Cowper and Crabbe, and shows the essential connections between them. Augustan poetry has too often been thought of as uniform, staidly classical, even dull. Margaret Doody explodes this myth once and for all. She shows it to be poetry of great energy and diversity: of extravagant conceits, subversive parody, incessant stylistic and formal experimentation; a self-consciously innovative poetry that sought to express and extend the perpetual, restless activity of the human mind. Both the principles and techniques of the verse are related to similar elements in the novels of the period; the book's numerous illustrations help to show how the poems were presented and interpreted in their own time. |
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Contents
Safe from the Bar Hayman and Grignion illustration | 2 |
Shepherds Week facing p 41 | 104 |
Hogarths illustration to the Skimmington in Hudibras | 122 |
ΙΟ Francis Cleyn and Salamon Savery illustration to Book II | 132 |
Illustration to Book vi of Ovids Metamorphoses in Garths | 175 |
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activity appear Augustan poetry beauty become beginning Book burlesque called century character charivari Civil close comic couplet creates criticism death Dryden edition effect elements Elizabethans English epic Epistle expresses eyes feel genre gives human idea illustration images imagination Imitation important interest John Johnson keep kind lady language less light lines literary living London look lyric manner meaning metamorphosis mind move nature object observed offers once original parody passage period picture play pleasure poem poet poetic Pope Pope's present Press quoted reader reference relation Restoration rhyme satire Seasons seems seen sense shows song sound speak stanza story strange style things Thomson thought transformation translation true turn University variety various verse Virgil voice whole writing