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Alexander Pope in The Reign of Queen Anne

Reconsiderations of His Early Career

By: A. D. Cousins,Daniel Derrin

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Alexander Pope in The Reign of Queen Anne

Reconsiderations of His Early Career

By: A. D. Cousins,Daniel Derrin

This is the first collection of essays since George Sherburn’s landmark monograph The Early Career of Alexander Pope (1934) to reconsider how the most important and influential poet of eighteenth-century Britain fashioned his early career. The volume covers Pope’s writings from across the reign of Queen Anne and just beyond. It focuses, in particular, on his interaction with the courtly culture constellated round the Queen. It examines, for instance, his representations of Queen Anne herself, his portrayals of politics and patronage under her reign, his negotiations with current literary theory, with the classical tradition, with chronologically distant yet also contemporaneous English poets, with current thought on the passions, and with membership of a religious minority. In doing so, it comprehensively reconsiders anew the ways in which Pope, increasingly supportive of Anne’s rule and mindful of the Virgilian rota, sought at first to realise his authorial aspirations.

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Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne

By: Daniel Derrin

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Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne

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Rhetoric and the Familiar examines the writing and oratory of Francis Bacon and John Donne from the perspective of the faculty psychology they both inherited. Both writers inherited the resources of the classical rhetorical tradition through their university education. The book traces, from within that tradition, the sources of Bacon and Donne’s ideas about the processes of mental image making, reasoning, and passionate feeling. It analyzes how knowledge about those mental processes underlies the rhetorical planning of texts by Bacon, such as New Atlantis, Essayes or Counsels, Novum Organum, and the parliamentary speeches, and of texts by Donne such as the Verse Letters, Essayes in Divinity, Holy Sonnets, and the sermons. The book argues that their rhetorical practices reflect a common appropriation of ideas about mental process from faculty psychology, and that they deploy it in divergent ways depending on their rhetorical contexts. It demonstrates the vital importance, in early modern thinking about rhetoric, of considering what familiar remembered material will occur to a given audience, how that differs according to context, as well as the problems the familiar entails.

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Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne

By: Daniel Derrin

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Alexander Pope in The Reign of Queen Anne

Reconsiderations of His Early Career

By: A. D. Cousins,Daniel Derrin

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Reconsiderations of His Early Career

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Alexander Pope in The Reign of Queen Anne

Alexander Pope in The Reign of Queen Anne

Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne

Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne

Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne

Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne

Alexander Pope in The Reign of Queen Anne

Alexander Pope in The Reign of Queen Anne

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