The Satiric Eye
Subtitle: Forms of Satire in the Romantic Period
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 31, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780312294960
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; Europe; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; European - General; Form - Parodies; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; 19th century; English literature; History and criticism; Satire, English; Verse satire, English
First sentence: With these words William Cowper encapsulated the deep unease that many Britons felt in the 1780s.