Author:
Clifford, James L. (James Lowry), 1901-1978.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1959.
Description351 p. ; 21 cm.
Note:The gloom of the Tory satirists / Louis I. Bredvold -- 'Wit and peotry and Pope': some observations on his imagery / Maynard Mack -- Pope on wit: The Essay on Criticism / Edward Niles Hooker -- Pope seen through his letters / John Butt -- The background of the attack on science in the age of Pope / R.F. Jones -- The conciseness of Swift / Herbert Davis -- A Modest Proposal and populousness / Louis A. Landa -- The pride of Lemuel Gulliver / Samuel Holt Monk -- John Gay / James Sutherland -- Addison / C.S. Lewis -- Robinson Crusoe as a myth / Ian Watt -- Thomson and Burns / Nichol Smith -- Aesthetic implications of Newton's Opticks / Marjorie Hope Nicolson -- Eighteenth-century poetic diction / Geoffrey Tillotson -- The poetry of Thomas Gray / Lord David Cecil -- Fielding's social outlook / George Sherburn -- Laurence Sterne, apostle of laughter / Rufus D.S.Putney -- The double tradition of Dr. Johnson / Bertrand H. Bronson -- Johnson's criticism of the metaphysical poets / William R. Keast -- Towards defining an age of sensibility / Northrop Frye -- Optimism and romanticism / Arthur O. Lovejoy.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index
