Download or read book The Providence of Wit written by Martin C. Battestin and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By exploring the relationship between the idea of Nature and the idea of Art in the period from 1660-1760, this study attempts to account for the distinctive quality of the 'Augustan mode' in literature in arts. Before what Pope envisioned as the apocalypse of modernism occurred, artists and aestheticians shared the faith of Newton and the divines in providential order, and, refining the neoclassical doctrine of mimesis, they expressed that faith in theory and practice. In shaping his own ideal forms, the Augustan artist took as paradigm the fiat of Genesis. Showing that theories of 'pure form' in the period rest upon the mutually dependent assumptions of ethnology and aesthetics, Professor Battestin first discusses the ways in which ideas of Nature's harmony, symmetry, and variety affected the doctrine of mimesis in the abstract arts of music, architecture, and gardening. Against the background he next examines the idea of Art and the relationship between form and meaning in the poetry of Pope and Gay and the fiction of Fielding and Godlsmith. THe final chapter, focusing on the deliberate violation of these formal principles in A Tale of Tub and Tristram Shandy, distinguishes between the Augustan and Modern modes by contrasting Swift's implicit acceptance of the ideals of his age with Sterne's sense that they are no logner relevant either to life or to art.
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Download or read book The Providence of Wit in the English Letter Writers written by William Henry Irving and published by Durham, N.C., Duke U. P. This book was released on 1955 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Providence of Wit in the English Letter Writers written by William Henry Irving and published by Octagon Press, Limited. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Otherworldly John Dryden written by Jack M. Armistead and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminding readers of John Dryden’s persistent use of occult rhetoric, Armistead argues that Dryden’s otherworldliness involves more than Christian apologetics, biblical typology, or intermittent borrowings from the supernatural materials in classical literature. Otherworldly John Dryden engages with a wide range of the writer’s poetry and plays, enhancing our understanding of Dryden’s works and tracing the writer’s attitudes about Providence and the ability of the poet to perceive a hidden design in earthly events.
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Download or read book The Triumph of Augustan Poetics written by Blanford Parker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Triumph of Augustan Poetics offers an important re-evaluation of the transition from Baroque to Augustan in English literature. Starting with Butler's Hudibras, Blanford Parker describes Augustan satire as a movement away from the 'controversial disputation' of the seventeenth century to a general satire which ridicules Protestant, Anglican and Catholic in equal measure, as well as the poetic traditions that supported them. Once the dominant forms of late medieval and Baroque thought - analogical and fideist, a fully symbolic world and an empty wilderness - were erased, a novel space for the imagination was created. Here a 'literalism' new to European thought can be seen to have replaced the general satire, and at this moment Pope and Thomson create a new art of natural and quotidian description, in parallel with the rise of the novel. Parker's account concludes with the ambiguous or hostile reaction to this new mode seen in the works of Samuel Johnson and others.
Download or read book Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth Century England written by Philip Ayres and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-08-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the aristocratic adoption of Roman ideals in eighteenth-century English culture.
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Download or read book Tom Jones written by Henry Fielding and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 1025 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom, a foundling, is discovered one evening by the benevolent Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget and brought up as a son in their household; when his sexual escapades and general misbehavior lead them to banish him, he sets out in search of both his fortune and his true identity. Amorous, high-spirited, and filled with what Fielding called “the glorious lust of doing good,” but with a tendency toward dissolution, Tom Jones is one of the first characters in English fiction whose human virtues and vices are realistically depicted. This edition is set from the text of the Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding.
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