"Clandestine satire was the principal medium of free comment in early modern Britain, reaching its peak following the Restoration. Thousands of satiric poems in the new 'easy' style, combining courtly assurance with flagrant indecency, circulated in manuscript. In the first comp…
"Clandestine satire was the principal medium of free comment in early modern Britain, reaching its peak following the Restoration. Thousands of satiric poems in the new 'easy' style, combining courtly assurance with flagrant indecency, circulated in manuscript. In the first comp…
"Clandestine satire was the principal medium of free comment in early modern Britain, reaching its peak following the Restoration. Thousands of satiric poems in the new 'easy' style, combining courtly assurance with flagrant indecency, circulated in manuscript. In the first comp…
Harold Love presents a comprehensive account of the thousands of lampoons and more serious 'state poems' that survive from Restoration England and their impact on the life of the nation and the literary practice of satire.
"Clandestine satire was the principal medium of free comment in early modern Britain, reaching its peak following the Restoration. Thousands of satiric poems in the new 'easy' style, combining courtly assurance with flagrant indecency, circulated in manuscript. In the first comp…