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2. Political, satirical, didactic and lyric poetry (I): from the Restoration to the death of Pope.
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Literary history has not been kind to British poetry of the late seventeenth and eighteenth century, far preferring poems of the periods just before and after. The reasons are many, having at least as much to do with subsequent patterns of taste as with the poetry itself. But the poetry does have features that make it seem especially difficult or odd to readers of later times, especially those with post-romantic ideas of what poetry is or should be. Despite Romantic claims to have reformed poetry along democratic lines (claims that did open up important new topics and directions, but that also ultimately narrowed what was considered ‘poetic’), poetry before the Romantics was open to wider uses and was more varied in topic and tone. Poetry then was more inclusive in several ways: treated a greater variety of subjects, used a larger range of voices and styles, aspired to more cultural uses and aimed at more diverse, less self-chosen audiences. As Joseph Trapp (Professor of Poetry at Oxford University) observed in a series of early eighteenth-century lectures, poetry's scope properly involved ‘every Being in Nature, and every object of the Imagination’. Poetry regularly invaded all forms of discourse and performed many kinds of services later restricted to prose: philosophical argument, for example, and didactic and utilitarian guides for ordinary life and activity. No subject was considered truly unpoetic; the range was from panegyric to invective and from delicacy and admiration to horror and gross disgust, from raucous and bawdy comedy to solemn high-mindedness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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3. Wordsworth's reading 1770-1799.
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Wu, Duncan
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Addison, Joseph, Cato Suggested date of reading: by 1791 References: Cornell DS 40 In Descriptive Sketches W alludes to Syphax's description of an African who ‘Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury’ (Cato I iv 71). Aikin, John and Anna Laetitia Aikin, Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose (1773) Suggested date of reading: by spring 1787 References: see note Miscellaneous Pieces contains a Gothic prose fragment called Sir Bertrand from which W borrowed several details for one of the central episodes in The Vale of Esthwaite, composed during the spring and summer of 1787 (lines 210-21 in De Selincourt's text). The episode begins: I the while Look'd through the tall and sable isle Of Firs that too a mansion led With many a turret on it's head Although W may be thinking of the castellated and partly ruined Calgarth Hall on the eastern shore of Windermere, the description probably borrows from Sir Bertrand: ‘by momentary glimpse of moon-light he had a full view of a large antique mansion, with turrets at the corners’ (Miscellaneous Pieces 129). Akenside, Mark (i) The Poems of Mark Akenside [1772] Suggested date of reading: 1779-87; by spring 1785 References: see note W's earliest surviving poem, Lines Written as a School Exercise (1785), contains a reference to ‘fair majestic truth’ (line 12). Akenside's invocations at the beginning of The Pleasures of Imagination include one to ‘The guide, the guardian of their lovely sports, / Majestic Truth’ (i 22-3). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1993
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4. Les représentations animales chez Horace dans le livre II des Satires et les livres I à III des Odes : présence ou absence d’une transformation générique
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Dominique Voisin
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Les Satires, comparées aux Odes, offrent des représentations animales plus hétérogènes, parfois très fortement spécialisées et de style moins varié : la satire se plaît à l’inventaire discontinu des espèces animales et l’animal satirique y est avant tout un objet au service de la diatribe morale, tandis que les animaux des Odes ont essentiellement une fonction descriptive et poétique et atteignent presque au statut de personnages. Cependant, ces divergences ne concernent que la forme apparente des deux œuvres et, d’ailleurs, la différence quantitative du nombre d’animaux, en valeur relative, entre les Satires et les Odes est moins grande qu’il n’y paraît en valeur absolue . Les animaux, qu’ils soient lyriques ou satiriques, ont toujours les mêmes caractères, sinon les mêmes fonctions. De manière peu originale, Horace classe les animaux soit d’après les dangers que diverses espèces font courir à l’homme, soit d’après les fonctions que les animaux assument à l’avantage de l’homme. La poésie horatienne, quel que soit le genre, présente également une conception philosophique éclectique de l’animal. Cependant, Horace s’élève contre une exploitation abusive, contre-nature, de la nature elle-même pour assouvir les faux besoins d’une humanité dépravée. Dans ses descriptions suggestives des animaux en liberté de la campagne italienne s’exprime peut-être aussi la sensibilité agreste du petit paysan de Venouse . Toutefois, cette sensibilité se manifeste le plus souvent par la médiation de la doctrina littéraire, et les représentations animales du poète sont soumises à une organisation consciente des réseaux de significations dans une perspective esthétique : les animaux horatiens contribuent ainsi à la romanisation des sources littéraires grecques et à la défense d’un art poétique particulier. The Satires, compared with the Odes, present more heterogeneous animal representations, sometimes strongly specialised and in a less varied style : the satire takes pleasure in making a discontinuous assessment of animal species and the satiric animal is there, before all, an object in the service of a moral diatribe, while the animals in the Odes have essentially a descriptive and poetic function, and almost reach the status of characters. These divergences concern only the apparent form of the two works and, besides, the quantitative difference in number of animals, in relative value, between the Satires and the Odes is not as big as it appears in absolute value. The animals, wether they are lyrical or satirical have always the same nature, if not the same functions. In a not very original way, Horace classifies the animals wether by the great dangers in which the diverse species put the men, or by the functions that the animals assume to the advantage of men. The poetry of Horace, whatever its genre, presents also a philosophical eclectic conception of the animal. However, Horace rises up against an abusive and unnatural exploitation of nature itself, to satisfy the false needs of a depraved humanity. In his suggestive descriptions of the animals roaming free in the italian country, perhaps also expresses itself the rustic sensibility of a small peasant from Venusia. Nevertheless, this sensibility appears, more often, thanks to the mediation of the literary doctrina, and the animal representations of the poet are subjected to a conscious organisation of networks of significations in an aesthetic perspective. So, the animals of Horace contribute to romanization of the greek literary sources and the defence of a special poetic art.
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- 2007
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