The Epistolary Moment : : The Poetics of the Eighteenth-Century Verse Epistle / / William C. Dowling.

The eighteenth-century verse epistle, argues William Dowling, was an attempt to solve in literary terms the dilemma of solipsism as raised by Locke and Hume. The focus of The Epistolary Moment is on internal audience in poetry--the audience "inside" the poem, created by its discourse and b...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1991
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1207
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Physical Description:1 online resource (230 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION. SOCIOPOETICS AND THE PROBLEM OF AUDIENCE
  • ONE. Lyric and Epistle
  • TWO. AUGUSTAN AUDIENCE
  • THREE. SATIRE AND EPISTLE
  • FOUR. The Commonwealth of Letters
  • FIVE. The Empire of Chaos
  • NOTES
  • POEMS CITED
  • WORKS CITED
  • INDEX