Satire, Lies, and Politics

Satire, Lies, and Politics

Author: Conal Condren

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780312175153

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Author Conal Condren looks at the writing career of Dr. John Arbuthnot (1667-1735), a successful and enlightened physician, mathematician, scientist, musician, and, most famously, a satirist. Arbuthnot, together with friends Swift, Pope, and Gray, formed the Scriblerian Club, a rare meeting of minds bent on satirizing and exposing what they saw as false learning and intellectual pretension.


Yvain

Yvain

Author: Chretien de Troyes

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1987-09-10

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0300187580

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The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.


Bodies of Thought

Bodies of Thought

Author: Ann Thomson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2008-07-03

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0199236194

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`The church in danger' : latitudinarians, socinians, and hobbists -- Animal spirits and living fibres -- Mortalists and materialists -- Journalism, exile, and clandestinity -- Mid-eighteenth-century materialism -- Epilogue: Some consequences.


Whig and Tory, Or Wit on Both Sides

Whig and Tory, Or Wit on Both Sides

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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-05-13

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9780259245049

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Excerpt from Whig and Tory, or Wit on Both Sides: Being the Collection of State Poems, Upon All Remarkable Occurrences, From the Change of the Ministry, to This Time L 0 N' D o g N, Printed for E. Curll, at the Dial and Bible againfi St. Dim/fan's Church in Fleet-fireet, I7 I 3. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

Author: F. P. Lock

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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This is the first full, scholarly biography of Burke for over a generation, to be completed in two volumes. The first volume covers the years between 1730-1784, and describes his Irish upbringing and education, early writing, and his parliamentary career throughout the momentous years of the American War of Independence.