Wits Led by the Nose; Or, A Poet's Revenge
Author: William Chamberlayne
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Published: 1678
Total Pages: 72
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Author: William Chamberlayne
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Published: 1678
Total Pages: 72
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Published: 1678
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Published: 1811
Total Pages: 552
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher: Johnson Reprint Corporation
Published: 1892
Total Pages: 308
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Published: 1892
Total Pages: 308
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Published: 1678
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James William Johnson
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9781580461702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of the poet and libertine the Earl of Rochester. Of the glittering, licentious court around King Charles II, John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, was the most notorious. Simultaneously admired and vilified, he personified the rake-hell. Libertine, profane, promiscuous, heshocked his pious contemporaries with his doubts about religion and his blunt verses that dealt with sex or vicious satiric assaults on the high and mighty of the court. This account of Rochester and his times provides the facts behind his legendary reputation as a rake and his deathbed repentance. However, it also demonstrates that he was a loving if unfaithful husband, a devoted father, a loyal friend, a serious scholar, a social critic, and an aspiring patriot. An Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Rochester, James William Johnson is the author or editor of nine books and many articles treating British and American Literature.
Author: Gerard Langbaine
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Published: 1698
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Raymond Stephanson
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013-10-09
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0812203666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiterary composition is more than an intellectual affair. Poetry has long been said to spring from the heart, while aspiring writers are frequently encouraged to write "from the gut." Still another formulation likens the poetic imagination to the pregnant womb, in spite of the fact that most poets historically have been male. Offering a rather different set of arguments about the forces that shape creativity, Raymond Stephanson examines how male writers of the Enlightenment imagined the origins, nature, and structures of their own creative impulses as residing in their virility. For Stephanson, the links between male writing, the social contexts of masculinity, and the male body—particularly the genitalia—played a significant role in the self-fashioning of several generations of male authors. Positioning sexuality as a volatile mechanism in the development of creative energy, The Yard of Wit explains why male writers associated their authorial work—both the internal site of creativity and its status in public—with their genitalia and reproductive and erotic acts, and how these gestures functioned in the new marketplace of letters. Using the figure and writings of Alexander Pope as a touchstone, Stephanson offers an inspired reading of an important historical convergence, a double commodification of male creativity and of masculinity as the sexualized male body. In considering how literary discourses about male creativity are linked to larger cultural formations, this elegant, enlightening book offers new insight into sex and gender, maleness and masculinity, and the intricate relationship between the male body and mind.