| Description |
701 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Oxford history of English literature ; 7 |
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Oxford history of English literature ; 7.
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [586]-696. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
The background : Social ; The ethos -- Defoe to 1710 -- Swift to 1709 -- Essayists and controversialists : Steele ; Swift, Defoe, Arbuthnot ; Addison -- Poetry : Introductory ; Some forms ; Some poets -- Pope to 1725 -- The drama -- The philosophers -- Critics and aestheticians -- Letters, memoirs, travel; historians and antiquaries -- Defoe, 1715-1731 : The miscellaneous writer ; Defoe and the novel -- Swift, 1715-2745 : The Irish patriot ; Gulliver's Travels ; The final phase: poetry -- Poetry, 1720-1740 : Thomson ; Scientific verse ; Various trends -- Pope, 1725-1744. |
| Subject |
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Dobrée, Bonamy, 1891-1974. English literature in the early eighteenth century, 1700-1740. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1959 (OCoLC)603644058 |
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