Restoration and Eighteenth-century Poetry, 1660-1780

Absalom Absalom and Achitophel Alexander Pope allusions Ambrose Philips analogy Anne Killigrew ballad biblical blank verse burlesque Butler Charles classical Cooper's Hill Cowleyan critics death didactic divine Dryden Dunciad Earl earlier early eighteenth century edition eighteenth-century poetry Elegy Eloisa to Abelard emotional England English epic epistles Essay example fables genres Georgics Gray's heroic couplets Horace Horace's Horatian Hudibras human Hymn ideal presence imagery images imagination imitation James John John Dryden King Lady Latin lines MacFlecknoe metaphors metonymy Milton mind Miscellanies mock-heroic mode models modern moral narrative nature objects Occasions odes panegyric parodies passion pastoral patriotic pattern Pindaric poem poetic poets political Pope Pope's positional style praise present prose published reader rhyme Rochester satire Scriblerian sense Smart social songs sonnets speaker Spenser Spenserian stanzas sublime Swift taste theme Thomas Thomson translations Virgil volume Waller William writing written wrote