The wit restor'd; or, the critic's rejoinder : a revaluation of William Walsh /
analysis of contexts hitherto neglected in studies of the
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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1995.
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | analysis of contexts hitherto neglected in studies of the assesses Walsh's twentieth-century critical reception. by the evidence, that Walsh's art and life are primarily Chapter III identifies don-finant patterns in editorial Chapter IV addresses the theoretical problems posed by the Chapter V integrates one of Walsh's occasional poems, A Chapter VI closes the study. characteristics of late seventeenth-century patronage. criticism are the common threads that baste the otherwise eighteenthnineteenth-, and twentieth-century anthologies. elegies as a group to better understand the unique framework of the many published elegies on the death of the Funeral Elegy upon the Death of the Queen, into the larger independent chapters of this thesis together. Chapter I man and his works. I argue the anomalous position, supported narratively conjoined. To cope with this intimacy between poet. Walsh's experiments with mediated discourse and the problems such discourse has posed for historical and textual provides an overview of the project. Chapter II surveys and Queen Mary, who died late in 1694. 1 propose considering the reputation and the relative accessibility of his work in the poet's historical anonymity despite both his contemporary This study revaluates the early eighteenth-century poet and treatment of Walsh, patterns that help partially account for Walsh's text and context, I recommend a scholarly edition of Walsh's work deviating sharply from established practice. wit William Walsh (1662-1708) through a careful selection and |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: English". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | vii, 96 leaves ; 28 cm. Also available online. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |