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Fame and Failure 1720–1800
Adam Rounce presents a colourful and unusual history of eighteenth-century British literature, exploring ideas of fame through writers who failed to achieve the literary success they so desired. Recounting the experiences of less canonical writers, including Richard Savage, Anna Seward and Percival Stockdale, Rounce discusses the inefficacy of apparent literary success, the forms of vanity and folly often found in failed authorship, and the changing perception of literary reputation from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the emergence of Romanticism. The book opens up new ways of thinking about the nature of literary success and failure, given the post-Romantic idea of the doomed creative genius, and provides an alternative narrative to critical accounts of the famous and successful.
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Irish political writings after 1725 : A modest proposal and other works
This latest volume of 'The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift' is the first fully annotated edition of Swift's Irish prose writings from 1726 to 1737. Works in this volume include the famous A Modest Proposal, the acerbic A Short View of the State of Ireland, Swift's contributions to The Intelligencer, and other prose pieces of satire, polemic and intervention into contemporary Irish politics. Most of these works have never previously been published with full scholarly annotation, or with a complete and textually authoritative apparatus. This volume offers a comprehensive introduction, setting Swift's writings of the period into their full historical, political and economic context. In addition to a critical introduction and appendices, there is also an up-to-date bibliography. The volume enables Swift's role as a political and social commentator in the years after the publication of Gulliver's Travels to be understood with new clarity.
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William Cowper: Religion, Satire, Society
Like the castaway of his most famous poem, Cowper was indeed obsessed with what he had convinced himself was his damnation; the critical task seemed to be to repeat the reasons behind this bizarre and disturbing state of affairs, and to speculate on its ultimate source (a somewhat futile pursuit, given the Deity's lack of response to literary criticism). Modern accounts by Vincent Newey, Martin Priestman, and William Hutchings (amongst others) have changed the terms of the debate considerably, moving away from the restrictive and insoluble problems ofwhether Cowper's faith was ameliorating or destructive, and instead representing a figure with far more intellectual agency and influence than the benighted and perpetually melancholy Cowper of old. Cowper, for Brunström, resists closure because his writing continually moves between concepts, genres, and ideas, without settling: \"The most perceptive criticisms of Cowper all recognise oscillation rather than synthesis as his most characteristic maneuver,\" and thus \"Cowper is not to be explained in terms of'values,' but rather in terms of tense, symbiotic relations between values\" (p. 20). [...]the fecundity of faith allowed him to reimagine the prospects and landscapes so central to his work, but only within the strictly demarcated borders and limits that he had drawn; beyond, natural images were distorted into all-tooaccurate expressions of his guilt, and sense of divine power, until domesticated hills resembled awful mountains.
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\A CLAMOUR TOO LOUD TO BE DISTINCT\: WILLIAM WARBURTON'S LITERARY SQUABBLES
[...]popular responses to his edition are almost gleeful in seizing upon the bumptiousness of its tone and procedure. \"8 While it would show folly and hubris worthy of Warburton himself to argue that the edition is consistently full of brilliant insights and valuable emendations, it deserves more notice than it usually gets, though for different reasons. Because of Warburton's sweeping tone (and his often unnecessary conjectures, which seem an excuse for the coining of a peculiar neologism), the edition became so immersed in controversy as to obscure its original intentions. [...]Warburton's stated idea of illustrating a solid and fixed language through such a linguistically divergent author was as doomed to failure as its correspondent reliance on neologisms to show, paradoxically, a linguistic tradition. The Oxford Editor changes demurely to din early\" (VII, 919; Antony and Cleopatra, 4.7.37). [...]without more ado, the Oxford Editor alters the text to fervently.
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The Complete Poems of William Empson | Norman Cameron
The Complete Poems of William Empson edited by John Haffenden (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2000) ISBN 0713992875 £30.00Norman Cameron: His Life, Work and Letters by Warren Hope (London: Greenwich Exchange, 2000) ISBN 187155105 6 £20.00
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