The Offensive Art: The Liberation of Poetic Imagination in Augustan SatireBrynmill, 1991 - 235 pages |
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... language they aspired to speak a language possessing the virtues bestowed on it by generations of poets who had used it to make sense of their worlds - conflicted with the language of the age . Each had equal claim to expression . When ...
... language they aspired to speak a language possessing the virtues bestowed on it by generations of poets who had used it to make sense of their worlds - conflicted with the language of the age . Each had equal claim to expression . When ...
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... language — the use of language to do things . The notion of dressing nature to advantage suggests how poetry is being demoted , that it is not a language in itself , but a way of dancing attendance on nature as language already ...
... language — the use of language to do things . The notion of dressing nature to advantage suggests how poetry is being demoted , that it is not a language in itself , but a way of dancing attendance on nature as language already ...
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... language in order to triumph over it . In engaging in certain forms of expression , the Augus- tan writer found himself striving against the texture of his language , against his own habits of thinking and feeling , and against whatever ...
... language in order to triumph over it . In engaging in certain forms of expression , the Augus- tan writer found himself striving against the texture of his language , against his own habits of thinking and feeling , and against whatever ...
Contents
Note on Texts page | 7 |
An Essay on Man | 175 |
The Dunciad | 198 |
Copyright | |
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