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Wordsworth's Pope: A Study in Literary Historiography

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Wordsworth's Pope: A Study in Literary Historiography - Griffin, Robert J.
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Recent studies of the concepts and ideologies of Romanticism have neglected to examine the ways in which Romanticism defined itself by reconfiguring its literary past. In Wordsworth's Pope Robert J. Griffin shows that many of the basic tenets of Romanticism derive from mid-eighteenth-century writers' attempts to free themselves from the literary dominance of Alexander Pope. As a result, a narrative of literary history in which Pope figured as an alien poet of reason and imitation became the basis for nineteenth-century ...

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Wordsworth's Pope: A Study in Literary Historiography 2005, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521023825

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Wordsworth's Pope: A Study in Literary Historiography 1995, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521481717

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