Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher: Alma Books
Published: 2019-07-07
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 0714548308
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written in 1727, The Art of Sinking in Poetry was one of Alexander Pope's contributions to the literary output of the legendary Scriblerus club - a circle of writers dedicated to mocking what they perceived as a culture of mediocrity and false learning prevalent in the arts and sciences of their day. Taking the form of an ironic guide to writing bad verse, Pope's tongue-in-cheek essay is wickedly funny in its lampooning of various pompous poetasters, as well as being essential reading for any budding writer wishing to avoid sinking to the unintentionally ridiculous, and instead reach for the sublime.
Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher: Alma Classics
Published: 2018-01-23
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781847496928
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written in 1727, The Art of Sinking in Poetry was one of Alexander Pope's contributions to the literary output of the legendary Scriblerus club – a circle of writers dedicated to mocking what they perceived as a culture of mediocrity and false learning prevalent in the arts and sciences of their day. Taking the form of an ironic guide to writing bad verse, Pope's tongue-in-cheek essay is wickedly funny in its lampooning of various pompous poetasters, as well as being essential reading for any budding writer wishing to avoid sinking to the unintentionally ridiculous, and instead reach for the sublime.
Author: Paul A. Olson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780803235687
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Kingdom of Science examines Baconian utopias as blueprints for a scientific sociologyøof knowledge that founded a new social and economic world in the seventeenth century. Looking backward, Paul A. Olson begins with More's Utopia and Shakespeare's The Tempest, static state utopias designed to woo us toward a moral as opposed to a scientific reform. To these, Olson then contrasts the primary subjects of his study?Bacon's New Atlantis, the Commonwealth educational utopias, and the utopianism of Adam Smith and his Utilitarian followers. These later utopias increasingly point to an ideal world to be dominated by a science linked to technology, compelled education, and competitive capitalism. They posit as their end the conquest of nature and use as their means the routinizing of research and education. Their visions, Olson argues, lie at the center of the educational models adopted by mainstream British and American policymakers in the last century and a half?despite the warnings of both conservative and radical critics concerning their potential consequences for the environment and for culture. The challenge Olson presents for those responsible for forging our social future is creating visions sufficient to energize human groups while allowing both for the critical reflection necessary for constructive policy debate and for the action necessary to prevent environmental chaos and cultural disruption. The Kingdom of Science is a companion to Olson's earlier book, The Journey to Wisdom, and carries the assumptions of that patristic-medieval study into the early-modern and modern periods.
Author: Roland Greene
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012-08-26
Total Pages: 1678
ISBN-13: 0691154910
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rev. ed. of: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics / Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, co-editors; Frank J. Warnke, O.B. Hardison, Jr., and Earl Miner, associate editors. 1993.
Author: Dustin Griffin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-07-15
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 0521761239
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book, Dustin Griffin explores the lifelong conversation between two great eighteenth-century English writers, Swift and Pope.
Author: Sara Crangle
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2010-09-23
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1441105077
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This essay collection reveals how bathos has become so central to literature, fine art, and music >