Title: English clandestine satire, 1660-1702
First published: 2004
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.
Subjects: English Satire, English Verse satire, English literature, Historiography, History, History and criticism, Politics and literature, Satire, English, Underground literature, Verse satire, English, English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, English poetry
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 17th century, Early modern, 1500-1700, Stuarts, 1603-1714
LC classification: PR545.S25 L68 2004