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Poetry and politics: some reflections / Alastair Fowler -- Rhyme and reason: poetics, patronage and secrecy in Elizabethan and Jacobean Ireland / Richard McCabe -- "A kingdom with my friend": favourites in Shakespeare / Tom MacFaul -- Shakespeare and Anthony Munday / David Womersley -- Shakespeare crucified / David Nokes -- Dryden and the laurel / Paul Hammond -- Pope: pen and press / Julian Ferraro -- Double-edged writing in the eighteenth century / Niall MacKenzie -- Pope, rhapsody, and rapture: "you grow correct that once with rapture writ" / George Rousseau -- Self-fashioned prospects: pen, print and the presentation of landscape in the correspondence of Alexander Pope / Robert J. Mayhew -- "Religion blushing veils her sacred fires": Pope and the veil of faith / Hester Jones -- Alexander Pope: "renown'd in rhyme" / Robert Douglas-Fairhurst -- The sleep of the dunces -- Claude Rawson -- Dulness's obscure vowel: language, monarchy and motherhood in Pope's The dunciad in four books / Valerie Rumbold -- Materialism, mechanism, and the novel / Thomas Keymer -- William Wordsworth: poetry and repose -- Peter McDonald. |
