Eighteenth-Century Studies · 1988 · 224 citations · 0 references
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List of illustrations A note on editions Preface Introduction 1. Appetite, imperialism and the fair variety of things 2. Some origins of Augustan practice: Civil War verse and its implications 3. Generic self-sconsciousness: from closed to open forms 4. The new Augustans and the Roman poets 5. Charivari and metamorphosis 6. Metamorphosis, pleasure and pain: the threat of the end 7. Character, style, language: the two voices of Augustan poems 8. Augustan voice and Augustan verse Notes Index.