The baroque in English neoclassical literature / J. Douglas Canfield.

Author/creator Canfield, J. Douglas
Format Book
Publication InfoNewark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©2003.
Description252 pages cm
Subjects
English literature--18th century. --History and criticism.
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700. --History and criticism.
Baroque literature--History and criticism.
Neoclassicism (Literature)--Great Britain.
Classicism in literature.

Contents Milton : mysteriously meant -- Cavendish and Philips : metaphysically meant -- Waller and Etherege : materially meant -- Dorset and Sedley : mischievously meant -- Buckingham and Rochester : reflexively meant -- Behn : paradoxically meant -- Dryden : cryptically meant -- Killigrew and Finch : ventriloquently meant -- Rowe and Pope and Tonson/Gildon and Curll : parasitically meant -- Pope : metaphorically meant -- Pope : mockingly meant -- Montagu : surrogately meant -- Swift : eccentrically meant -- Gay and Fielding : absurdly meant.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235-242) and index.
LCCN 2003001170
ISBN0874138345 (alk. paper)