Toward an Augustan poetic Edmund Waller's "reform" of English poetry /

Allison, Alexander W.

Toward an Augustan poetic Edmund Waller's "reform" of English poetry / Alexander Ward Allison. - Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1962. - 1 online resource (112 pages)

Includes bibliographical references.

Cover; title; copyright; contents; acknowledgments; 1. introductory; 2. waller's departures from jacobean practice; 3. the refineement of our language; 4. wit and judgment; 5. the reform of our numbers; appendix; notes; index; a; b; c; d; e; f; g; h; j; k; l; m; o; p; r; s; t; v; w.

The almost universal adulation given Edmund Waller in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries --



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Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.--Influence.
English poetry--Roman influences.
Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.
English poetry--Roman influences.


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