Poetry and the realm of politics : Shakespeare to Dryden /

Taking issue with the traditional concept of the political poem this treatise identifies the major tradition of political allusion not in overtly political poems, but rather as a shifting and less systematic presence found in some of the most powerful poems of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Erskine-Hill, Howard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford [England] : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1996.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:Taking issue with the traditional concept of the political poem this treatise identifies the major tradition of political allusion not in overtly political poems, but rather as a shifting and less systematic presence found in some of the most powerful poems of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 284 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-271) and index.
ISBN:9780191670916
019167091X