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Author : Sir Richard Blackmore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Sir Richard Blackmore's Essay Upon Wit (1716) written by Sir Richard Blackmore and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465601651
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (656 download)
Download or read book Essay upon Wit written by Sir Richard Doddridge Blackmore and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle between the puritans and the sophisticates is never ending. At certain stages of cultural development the worldly wise are in the ascendent in the literary world, as they were in the Restoration and after the first World War. Yet those with a more sober view of life are never submerged, even when they are overshadowed. The court of the restored Charles gave full play to the indelicacy of Rochester, Dryden, and their circles, but most of their contemporaries were probably more content to read George Herbert, Queries, Baxter, and Bunyan. Though the fashionable and urbane remained dominant in letters through the age of Dryden, the forces of morality were rallying, and after 1688 the court (with which Blackmore was connected) threw its weight on the side of virtue. Jeremy Collier was but the most important voice of a great movement, destined to have its effect on literature. Sir Richard Blackmore contributed his share to the growing wave of bourgeois morality, which in the 18th century was reflected in the middle-class appeal of Addison and Steel, Lillo'sÊLondon Merchant, and Richardson's almost feminine plea for virtue rewarded. A physician, Blackmore had turned to poetry for relaxation and composed his soporific epics, by his own admission, in the coffee-houses and in his coach while visiting patients. In the preface, toÊPrince ArthurÊ(1695) the City Bard took occasion to flay the Wits of the day for their immorality, an attack which he followed up in 1697 with the Preface toÊKing Arthur, whose thinly disguised political allegory won him a knighthood. Up to this point the Wits had treated him with amused scorn, but when he called his big guns into action in theÊSatyr against WitÊ(dated 1700 but issued late in 1699) the Wits set out to crush him for once and all.Commendatory Verses on the of the Two Arthurs and the Satyr against WitÊ(1700), the reply, was far from commendatory. Edited by Tom Brown and sponsored by Christopher Codrington, this miscellany attempted in scurrilous and often bad verse to laugh the Knight out of literary existence. Its main distinction lies in the list of contributors, among whom were Sir Charles Sedley, Richard Steele, Tom Brown, and probably John Dennis. Blackmore's supporters answeredÊCommendatory VersesÊwithDiscommendatoryVerses on Those Which are Truly Commendatory, on the of the Two Arthurs, and the Satyr against Wit. (1700). It is not at all certain that Blackmore emerged second best in this exchange of blows in the miscellanies. At any rate, unabashed he went on to write more epics on Elizabeth, Alfred, Job, and to win himself a doubtful immortality by being pilloried in Pope'sÊDunciad.
Author : Richard Sir Blackmore
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Essay upon Wit written by Richard Sir Blackmore and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Essay upon Wit" by Richard Sir Blackmore. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Corbyn Morris
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) written by Corbyn Morris and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humor, Rallery, Satire, and Ridicule is about the history and the highest form of wit and satire. Corbyn Morris uses the examples of John Dryden, John Locke, Joseph Addison, and more to evaluate wit. Morris discusses Congreve, John Falstaff, and Shakespeare in his introspection on humor. Excerpt: "The Sentiments of these eminent Writers upon Wit, having thus been exhibited, I come next to the Subject of Humour. This has been defined by some, in the following Manner, with great Perspicuity.-- Humor is the genuine Wit of Comedies,--which has afforded vast Satisfaction to many Connoisseurs in the Belles Lettres; especially as Wit has been supposed to be incapable of any Definition."
Author : Edward A. Bloom
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136171800
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Joseph Addison and Richard Steele written by Edward A. Bloom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.
Author : Thomas D'Urfey
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Essays on the Stage written by Thomas D'Urfey and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Essays on the Stage: Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699)" by Thomas D'Urfey D'Urfey was an English writer and wit. He wrote plays, songs, jokes, and poems. He was an important innovator and contributor in the evolution of the ballad opera. The Campaigners; Or, The Pleasant Adventures At Brussels was a comedy play by this famed writer. Considered a work of smut at the time, D'Urfey felt compelled to write a preface to this work to help his audiences better understand the story and his intentions with writing it.
Author : Aaron Hill
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation written by Aaron Hill and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Of Genius" is an essay by the 18th-century English writer Aaron Hill that explores the nature of artistic genius. It discusses the qualities that makeup genius, the importance of imagination, and the connection between genius and hard work. Hill's insights into the creative process have made "Of Genius" a valuable resource for those interested in the arts.
Author : Samuel Richardson
Publisher : Publio Kiadó Kft.
ISBN 13 : 9633818214
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)
Download or read book Samuel Richardson's Introduction to Pamela written by Samuel Richardson and published by Publio Kiadó Kft.. This book was released on with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since most publishers of Pamela have preferred to print Richardson’s table of contents from the sixth edition, his complete introduction (his preface, together with letters to the editor and comments) is missing even from some of our best collections. Occasionally one finds the preface and the first two letters, but only four publishers since Richardson have attempted to reprint the full introduction. Harrison (London, 1785) -- who omits the first letter -- and Cooke (London, 1802-3) both follow Richardson’s eighth edition; Ballantyne (Edinburgh, 1824) uses the fourth; the Shakespeare Head (Oxford, 1929), the third. And even these printings leave one dissatisfied. The Shakespeare Head gives the fullest text, but naturally omits Richardson’s revisions; Cooke gives the introduction in its final form, but one misses the full text which accompanied the book in its heyday; and rarely are both Cooke and Shakespeare Head to be found in the same library.
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two Rambler papers (1750) written by Samuel Johnson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two Rambler papers (1750)" by Samuel Johnson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Roger D. Lund
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317062973
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Ridicule, Religion and the Politics of Wit in Augustan England written by Roger D. Lund and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing for the importance of wit beyond its use as a literary device, Roger D. Lund outlines the process by which writers in Restoration and eighteenth-century England struggled to define an appropriate role for wit in the public sphere. He traces its unpredictable effects in works of philosophy, religious pamphlets, and legal writing and examines what happens when literary wit is deliberately used to undermine the judgment of individuals and to destabilize established institutions of church and state. Beginning with a discussion of wit's association with deception, Lund suggests that suspicion of wit and the imagination emerges in attacks on the Restoration stage, in the persecution of The Craftsman, and in criticism directed at Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan and works by writers like the Earl of Shaftesbury, Thomas Woolston, and Thomas Paine. Anxieties about wit, Lund shows, were in part responsible for attempts to suppress new communal venues such as coffee houses and clubs and for the Church's condemnation of the seditious pamphlets made possible by the lapse of the Licensing Act in 1695. Finally, the establishment's conviction that wit, ridicule, satire, and innuendo are subversive rhetorical forms is glaringly at play in attempts to use libel trials to translate the fear of wit as a metaphorical transgression of public decorum into an actual violation of the civil code.
Author : John Dryden
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book His Majesties Declaration Defended written by John Dryden and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "His Majesties Declaration Defended" by John Dryden. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1604134348
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Jonathan Swift written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known as the author of ""Gulliver's Travels"", Jonathan Swift is one of literature's great satirists. Born and educated in Ireland, Swift became a politician and clergyman in England, where he wrote essays, pamphlets, poems, and fiction that addressed the political issues and social conditions of his time. In ""Gulliver's Travels"", he introduced the allegorical settings of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the island of the Houyhnhnms, as well as the term 'yahoos' in a playful, but dark, satirical reflection of humankind. This addition to ""Bloom's Classic Critical Views"" includes a chronology, an index, and an introductory essay by Yale University professor Harold Bloom.
Author : Sir Thomas Hanmer
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Written by Mr. William Shakespeare (1736) written by Sir Thomas Hanmer and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Thomas Hanmer's 'Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Written by Mr. William Shakespeare' (1736) is a seminal work that offers a critical analysis of Shakespeare's iconic tragedy. Hanmer's insightful commentary delves into the complex characters, themes, and narrative structure of Hamlet, highlighting the play's psychological depth and philosophical implications. Written in a lucid and articulate style, Hanmer's work sheds new light on the timeless appeal of Shakespeare's masterpiece within its literary context of the 18th century English theater. Sir Thomas Hanmer, a prominent literary figure and Member of Parliament, was renowned for his expertise in classical and English literature. His meticulous study of Shakespeare's works, coupled with his in-depth knowledge of contemporary literary trends, enabled him to provide a comprehensive and illuminating analysis of Hamlet. Hanmer's critical insights and scholarly approach underscore the enduring significance of Shakespeare's plays in shaping the literary canon. This book is highly recommended for scholars, students, and enthusiasts of Shakespearean literature who aim to deepen their understanding of Hamlet and elucidate its enduring relevance in the realm of English drama. Hanmer's nuanced commentary offers a compelling interpretation of one of Shakespeare's most enigmatic and compelling works.
Author : William Thomas Lowndes
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382104733
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (821 download)
Download or read book The Bibliographer's Manual of the English Literature written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Nicholas Rowe
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709) written by Nicholas Rowe and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one can surmise from the title, this book is a biography of William Shakespeare. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. He remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
Author : Josiah Woodward
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the English Stage (1704) written by Josiah Woodward and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-19 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the English Stage (1704),' editors Josiah Woodward and Emmett Langdon Avery curate a compelling anthology that scrutinizes the moral landscape of early 18th-century English theatre. This collection is marked by its rich diversity in literary styles, encompassing a range of critiques, plays, and essays that serve to frame the theatrical scene of the era not as mere entertainment but as a mirror of societal ethics and values. The anthology stands out for its critical examination of what the editors perceive as the erosion of moral standards, providing an invaluable lens through which we can understand cultural and ethical debates of the time. The contributing authors and editors themselves are nestled at the heart of a significant literary and moral debate, hailing from varied backgrounds yet unified by their concern for the cultural and societal impact of the stage. Their collective works embody the tensions between art and morality, highlighting the role of the theatre in reflecting and shaping public perceptions of virtue and vice. This anthology aligns with broader historical and cultural movements seeking to regulate and redefine the arts according to moral standards, showcasing a pivotal moment in the evolution of English literature and theatre. 'Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the English Stage' is an essential read for those intrigued by the intersection of literature, ethics, and society. The anthology offers a unique opportunity to explore diverse literary styles and themes, all while engaging in the broader dialogue on the moral responsibilities of the arts. Readers are invited to traverse the complexities of early 18th-century thought, gaining insights into the historical debates that shaped English literature and theatre. This collection promises not just an educational journey, but a fascinating exploration of the dynamic interplay between art, morality, and culture.
Author : Ashley Marshall
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408171
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Practice of Satire in England, 1658–1770 written by Ashley Marshall and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhaustive study of satire in the long eighteenth century. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice In The Practice of Satire in England, 1658–1770, Ashley Marshall explores how satire was conceived and understood by writers and readers of the period. Her account is based on a reading of some 3,000 works, ranging from one-page squibs to novels. The objective is not to recuperate particular minor works but to recover the satiric milieu—to resituate the masterpieces amid the hundreds of other works alongside which they were originally written and read. The long eighteenth century is generally hailed as the great age of satire, and as such, it has received much critical attention. However, scholars have focused almost exclusively on a small number of canonical works, such as Gulliver's Travels and The Dunciad, and have not looked for continuity over time. Marshall revises the standard account of eighteenth-century satire, revealing it to be messy, confused, and discontinuous, exhibiting radical and rapid changes over time. The true history of satire in its great age is not a history at all. Rather, it is a collection of episodic little histories.
