The triumph of Augustan poetics

Description:

The Triumph of Augustan Poetics offers an important and original reevaluation of the transition from Baroque to Augustan in English Literature. Starting with Butler's outrageous burlesque, Hudibras, Blanford Parker describes the origins of Augustan satire and its momentous departure from the religious and social writing of an earlier era. He goes on to explain the creation, from the ruins of satire, of a new poetry of nature and everyday life (emerging most significantly in the work of Pope and Thomson), and the ambiguous or hostile responses of writers including Samuel Johnson. - Publisher.

subjects: Aesthetics,  Aesthetics, British,  Baroque literature,  British Aesthetics,  English Verse satire,  English literature,  English poetry,  History,  History and criticism,  Influence,  Poetics,  Roman influences,  Verse satire, English,  Johnson, samuel, 1709-1784,  Butler, samuel, 1612-1680,  English poetry (collections), 18th century,  English poetry (collections), early modern, 1500-1700,  English literature, foreign influences,  Baroque literature, history and criticism,  English literature, history and criticism,  Early modern,  Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.),  Engels,  Letterkunde,  Literatuurtheorie,  Lyrik,  Poetik,  Geschichte,  Literatur,  Satire,  Verssatire,  Critique et interprétation,  Poésie anglaise,  Histoire et critique,  Littérature baroque,  Esthétique,  Poètes anglais,  Hudibras (Butler, Samuel)

People: Augustus Emperor of Rome (63 B.C.-14 A.D),  Samuel Butler (1612-1680),  Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Times: 18th century,  Early modern, 1500-1700