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- catalog abstract ""Nothing to Admire argues for the persistence of a central tradition of poetic satire in English that extends from Restoration England to present-day America. This tradition is rooted in John Dryden's and Alexander Pope's uses of Augustan metaphor to criticize the abuse of social and political power and to promote an antithetical ideal of satiric authority based on freedom of mind. Because of their commitment to neoclassical conceptions of political virtue, the British Augustans developed a meritocratic cultural ideal grounded in poetic judgment and opposed to the political institutions and practices of their superiors in birth, wealth, and might. Their Augustanism thus gives a political meaning to the Horatian principle of nil admirari. This book calls the resulting outlook "cultural liberalism" in order to distinguish it from the classical liberal insistence on private property as the basis of political liberty, a conviction that arises within the same general period and often stands in adversarial relation to the Augustan mentality."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12970251.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Nothing to Admire argues for the persistence of a central tradition of poetic satire in English that extends from Restoration England to present-day America. This tradition is rooted in John Dryden's and Alexander Pope's uses of Augustan metaphor to criticize the abuse of social and political power and to promote an antithetical ideal of satiric authority based on freedom of mind. Because of their commitment to neoclassical conceptions of political virtue, the British Augustans developed a meritocratic cultural ideal grounded in poetic judgment and opposed to the political institutions and practices of their superiors in birth, wealth, and might. Their Augustanism thus gives a political meaning to the Horatian principle of nil admirari. This book calls the resulting outlook "cultural liberalism" in order to distinguish it from the classical liberal insistence on private property as the basis of political liberty, a conviction that arises within the same general period and often stands in adversarial relation to the Augustan mentality."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-211) and index.".
- catalog description "Satura redux : Dryden and the Augustan ideal -- Arm'd for virtue : pope as cultural liberal -- Byron, laughter, and legitimation -- Auden in the polis of the absurd -- Imbued with otherness : Merrill's mock-epics of desire.".
- catalog extent "219 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0195155300 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "821.009/358 21".
- catalog subject "Merrill, James Ingram Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Merrill, James, 1926-1995 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PR508.S27 Y8 2003".
- catalog subject "Political poetry, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Political poetry, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "Verse satire, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Verse satire, English History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Satura redux : Dryden and the Augustan ideal -- Arm'd for virtue : pope as cultural liberal -- Byron, laughter, and legitimation -- Auden in the polis of the absurd -- Imbued with otherness : Merrill's mock-epics of desire.".
- catalog title "Nothing to admire : the politics of poetic satire from Dryden to Merrill / Christopher Yu.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".