Sir Richard Blackmore

Sir Richard Blackmore
Author: Albert Rosenberg
Publisher: Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1953
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Sir Richard Blackmore and the Bible

Sir Richard Blackmore and the Bible
Author: Michela Pizzol Giacomini
Publisher:
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Sir Richard Blackmore (1650_1729) was deeply affected by the Protestant poetic trends in England, which favored the Sacred Scriptures as a source for what was termed 'divine poetry.' His preference also prized the religious poetic trends as a spiritual weapon against vice and atheism. His advocacy of ideas upholding virtue, morality, and Christianity in a world that was undergoing phenomenal changes in its mores served as a backbone for the renewal and strengthening of the increasing popularity of divine poetry. This work further explores the Bible's influence on Blackmore's physico-theological poems, his personal notions of a Creator, and his scientific ideas.

Perlycross

Perlycross
Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Publisher:
Total Pages: 510
Release: 1894
Genre: English fiction
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Mary Anerley

Mary Anerley
Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1880
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Art of Sinking in Poetry

Art of Sinking in Poetry
Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher: Alma Books
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2019-07-07
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0714548308

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.

The Rise of Robert Dodsley

The Rise of Robert Dodsley
Author: Harry M. Solomon
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780809316519

The new biography of the publisher and bookseller who premiered the work of Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson deftly integrates Dodsley's life story with the literary transition from court patronage to the age of print that paved the way for the Romantic movement of the 19th century. Solomon (English, Auburn U.) details the unique circumstances that led Dodsley from his position as a weaver's apprentice to his career as a playwright, culminating in his last incarnation as one of the most influential literary forces of his time. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR