The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Couverture rigide

Pope, Alexander

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0548154600 ISBN 13 : 9780548154601

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing Co, 2007

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Pope is spoken of as our Augustan age. Were this transfer of title intended to imply the existence during the period in question of any royal patronage of letters such as the first of the legitimate Caesars was too prudent absolutely to neglect, it would condemn itself at once. The English Augustans were not warmed by the favour of any English A ugustus. William the Deliverer, in whose reign they had grown up, had been without stomach for the literature of a nation with whose tastes and habits he had never made it part of his political program to sympathise. Queen A nnes very feeble light of personal judgment was easily kept under by the resolute will of her favourites, or flickered timidly under cover of the narrowest orthodoxy. Of the first two Georges the former, indifferent to an unpopularity which never seemed to endanger his tenure of the throne, neither possessed an ordinary mastery of the English tongue nor manifested even a transient desire to acquire it. His successor had no objection to be considered, in virtue of his mistress rather than his wife, the patron of the literary adherents of a political party, until, on mounting the throne, he blandly disappointed the hopes of that party itself. The epoch of our Augustans had all but closed, when the death of Frederick, Prince of Wales, put an absolute end to the nominal hopes in the advent of a golden age for the liberal arts, by averting the accession of a Patriot King. Neither was the defect of royal patronage supplied by any genuine Maecenas from among the great ones of the realm. The traditions in this respect of the Stuart period traditions doubtless exaggerated in the age of Pope, yet not wholly baseless had barely survived the expulsion of the last Stuart King. Of King Wil Hams Batavian comrades, none had sought to grace their newly-acquired dignities and incomes by fostering the efforts of ge
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0548154600
• ISBN 13: 9780548154601
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 560
• Éditeur: Ward Sir Adolphus William
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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