A Poetics of Augustan Elegy: Studies of Poems by Dryden, Pope, Prior, Swift, Gray, and Johnson

1817 LIBRARIES actual Aeneid Alexander Pope allusion artifice artistic assertion attitude Augustan elegy chearful Christian Clarendon Press complex consolation context contrast conventional couplet creative Criticism dead Dean Death of Dr defense depicted Dryden eighteenth-century elegiac motifs elegist emotion epic Epitaph Essays ev'ry experience expression F. R. Leavis feeling fictional final formal Friends Gray Gray's grief human ideality of art illusion imagery images imaginative idealizations ironic irony Jack and Joan John John Dryden Johnson Jonathan Swift lament language Levet lines literary literature loss Lycidas metaphor MICHIGAN CHIGAN Milton's moral mourn nature numbers Oldham oppositions Oxford Paradise Lost paradoxically pastoral Paul Fussell permanence phrase poem poem's poet poet's poetic poetry Pope Pope's praise Prior Rachel Trickett reader reality Reuben Brower rhetorical Samuel Johnson satire satirist sentiments sincere sonnet soul speaker style stylized Swift symbolic tensions thee theme Thomas Gray tion tone traditional Trickett turization UNIV University Press VERSITY virtue Walk'd weep