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... moral . Dryden's concession of Horace's superiority as a teacher , despite his personal preference for Juvenal , is also a well- established prop of the traditional view : by the beginning of the eighteenth century , few readers dispute ...
... moral . Dryden's concession of Horace's superiority as a teacher , despite his personal preference for Juvenal , is also a well- established prop of the traditional view : by the beginning of the eighteenth century , few readers dispute ...
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... moral norms that won the palm for Horace against his two rivals ; his " many excellent Rules and Precepts " constituted the superiority of his satires . For the eighteenth - century reader , one of these norms was presented ready - made ...
... moral norms that won the palm for Horace against his two rivals ; his " many excellent Rules and Precepts " constituted the superiority of his satires . For the eighteenth - century reader , one of these norms was presented ready - made ...
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... moral stance . " You could not , ' he tells Pope , " do a worse thing for your Life . ” As satirist , Pope's conduct is subject to judgment both according to private , moral norms and according to public , social ones . This dilemma has ...
... moral stance . " You could not , ' he tells Pope , " do a worse thing for your Life . ” As satirist , Pope's conduct is subject to judgment both according to private , moral norms and according to public , social ones . This dilemma has ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SATIRE | 37 |
APOLOGIA PRO VITA | 73 |
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