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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 1 October 2025
- ISBN 9781041116400
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages142 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 420 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
First published in 1971, Reinterpretations focusses upon a group of closely related major poems—L’Allegro and Il Penseroso, Milton’s companion pieces, and Lycidas, Pope’s Rape of the Lock and Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, and Johnson’s London.
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First published in 1971, Reinterpretations focusses upon a group of closely related major poems—L’Allegro and Il Penseroso, Milton’s companion pieces, and Lycidas, Pope’s Rape of the Lock and Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, and Johnson’s London. The critical and interpretive light which Professor Hardy brings to bear on these works constitutes a considerable reinterpretation which informs our understanding of seventeenth and eighteenth century English poetry.
In the individual essays, Professor Hardy suggests that the real theme of Milton’s companion poems has gone unrecognized, and that not only has Lycidas a clear structural unity, but the final, effective statement of its theme depends on a realization of how this unity is achieved. He argues that current interpretations of Pope’s beautiful heroine are generally too limiting, especially in ignoring the wit of the Rape’s overall conception, and that the Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, far from being a mere collection of brilliant passages, has a structure skilfully articulated in terms of its individual theme. Finally, he demonstrates that Johnson’s reworking of Juvenal’s famous third satire has, as its central structural metaphor implies, an original and essentially political theme. This book will be a beneficial read for students and researchers of English literature.
Review of the first publication:
‘[The author’s] present arguments are strong, sensible, lucid and authoritative. His style is pleasant, and his book should be read by everyone interested in the literature of the period . . . He provides sensible, coherent, convincing judgments based on a detailed knowledge of the texts themselves and of the best modern criticism and scholarship . . . all students should benefit from the provision of such fruitful, constructive discussion.’
— British Book News
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface 1. L’Allegro and Il Penseroso 2. Lycidas 3. The Rape of the Lock 4. An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 5. London
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