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The Providence of Wit: Aspects of Form in Augustan Literature and the Arts [Paperback]

Martin C. Battestin (Author)

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Paperback: 331 pages
Publisher: University of Virginia Press (August 1, 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0813912350
ISBN-13: 978-0813912356
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,410,665 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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As England's Augustan Age began, Dryden somewhat extravagantly congratulated his friend Sir Robert Howard on the formal perfection of his poetry, which, like the creation itself, was the product not of accident, but of art: . . . this is a piece too fair To be the child of Chance, and not of Care. Read the first page

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concordia discors, true prudence, uncreating word, ars vivendi, living wheels, platonic metaphor, ideal nature, humanist tradition

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Tom Jones, The Dunciad, Tristram Shandy, Windsor Forest, Joseph Andrews, The Disturbance of Form, Paradise Lost, Sir William, The Argument of Design, The New Dunciad, Augustan Age, Mazard Hill, Gay's Trivia, Iron Age, Paradise Hall, Robert Morris, Parson Adams, Samuel Clarke, Sophy Western, Squire Thornhill, Augustan England, Earl Wasserman, Great Year, Grub Street, Lady Bellaston

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Tom Jones (Oxford World's Classics) by Henry Fielding on 57 pages
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Modern Library Classics) by Laurence Sterne on 26 pages
Essay on Man and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) by Alexander Pope on 25 pages
Joseph Andrews (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henry Fielding on 20 pages
A Tale of a Tub (Everyman's University Paperbacks) by Jonathan Swift on 17 pages

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The Boundaries of Fiction: History and the Eighteenth-Century British Novel by Everett Zimmerman on page 137, page 185, and page 188
Ideology and Form in Eighteenth-Century Literature by David H. Richter on page 30, page 73, and page 80
Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation (Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series) by Bharat Tandon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
The Real History of Tom Jones by John Allen Stevenson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation (Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series) by Bharat Tandon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)

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