The Triumph of Augustan Poetics
Subtitle: English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780521028677
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Poetry; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature; English poetry--18th century--History and criticism; History; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Literary Criticism : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: It seems fair to speculate that Samuel Butler, like Swift and Johnson after him, spent a large part of his early adult life in far-ranging and sometimes esoteric study.