Synopses & Reviews
An important re-evaluation of the transition from Baroque to Augustan in English literature.
Review
"...Parker...offers a new understanding of the relationship between the Augustan mode and the modes of preceding ages." Choice"Despite this study's massive theological, historical, nd poetic frame of reference, the book is clearly written and can thus be recommended to common reader and scholar alike." SJSSC Newsletter
Synopsis
This book offers an important re-evaluation of the transition from Baroque to Augustan in English literature. Analysing works by Butler, Pope, Thomson, Johnson, and many others, Blanford Parker's account explains the origins of Augustan satire, its momentous departure from earlier models, and the subsequent creation of a new poetry of nature and everyday life.