Includes bibliographical references (pages 13-19) and index.
Contents:
Poetry and politics : some reflections / Alastair Fowler -- Rhyme and reason: poetics, patronage and secrecy in Elizabethan and Jacobean Ireland / Richard McCabe -- A kingdom with my friend : favourites in Shakespeare / Tom MacFaul -- Shakespeare and Anthony Munday / David Womersley -- Shakespeare crucified / David Nokes -- Dryden and the laurel / Paul Hammond -- Pope : pen and press / Julian Ferraro -- Double-edged writing in the eighteenth century / Niall MacKenzie -- Pope, rhapsody, and rapture : you grow correct that once with rapture writ / George Rousseau -- Self-fashioned prospects: pen, print and the presentation of landscape in the correspondence of Alexander Pope / Robert J. Mayhew -- Religion blushing veils her sacred fires : Pope and the veil of faith / Hester Jones -- Alexander Pope : renown'd in rhyme / Robert Douglas-Fairhurst -- The sleep of the dunces -- Claude Rawson -- Dulness's obscure vowel : language, monarchy and motherhood in Pope's The dunciad in four books / Valerie Rumbold -- Materialism, mechanism, and the novel / Thomas Keymer -- William Wordsworth : poetry and repose -- Peter McDonald.
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