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- Title
Edward Rushton and Alexander Pope: Poets in Opposition?
- Authors
Baines, Paul
- Abstract
On the face of it, Edward Rushton (1756-1814) should have been in the vanguard of a politicised Romanticism, and this should have entailed rejection of the literary forms, values, and diction of the uncrowned poet laureate of the British ancien regime, Alexander Pope (1688-1744). In fact, however, Rushton appears to have read Pope more keenly than he read his Romantic contemporaries, and his embedded quotations from the earlier author show not rejection so much as a turn away from irony towards civic urgency. This paper points out some surprising coincidences of idea and feeling between the two poets, and provides a counter-narrative to the Romantic opposition to Pope.
- Subjects
RUSHTON, Edward; POPE, Alexander, 1688-1744; ROMANTICISM
- Publication
Questione Romantica, 2016, Vol 8, Issue 1/2, p15
- ISSN
1125-0364
- Publication type
Article