English clandestine satire, 1660-1702
By: Harold Love.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Satire, English -- History and criticism.; Underground literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism.; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; Verse satire, English -- History and criticism.; Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714 -- Historiography.
Description: "Clandestine satire was the principal medium of free comment in early modern Britain, reaching its peak following the Restoration. Thousands of satiric poems in the new 'easy' style, combining courtly assurance with flagrant indecency, circulated in manuscript. In the first comprehensive survey of this vast field, Harold Love identifies three primary categories of 'court', 'Town', and 'state' lampoons, and demonstrates that far from being the product of isolated disaffection, satire was written - anonymously - by most poets, including such major talents as Marvell and Rochester."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-420) and index.