Satire and Sentiment, 1600-1830: Stress Points in the English Augustan Tradition by Claude Rawson
This elegantly written book examines the evolution of satirical writing in the long eighteenth century-from Swift and Pope to Byron, Shelley, and Austen-and the social and cultural changes that conditioned it.
Rawson is himself an Augustan among critics, expressing worlds of scholarship with a pungent and delightful humanism.-Donald Lyons, New Criterion
A luxuriant hybrid of keen literary criticism and well-documented cultural history. . . . This ranging synthesis of a reeling world is mind-expanding for critics and historians, specialists and generalists.-Kenneth Craven, Scriblerian
Rawson's book shows that there is considerable life and interest left in relatively traditional literary history.-Charles A. Knight, Eighteenth-Century Studies
Rawson marshals an army of erudite references from Statius to Mailer to illuminate the major figures: Swift, Pope, Burke, Byron, and Shelley. His conversational style is wide-ranging in the best Augustan essay-mode.-Laura L. Runge, Albion
Rawson is himself an Augustan among critics, expressing worlds of scholarship with a pungent and delightful humanism.-Donald Lyons, New Criterion
A luxuriant hybrid of keen literary criticism and well-documented cultural history. . . . This ranging synthesis of a reeling world is mind-expanding for critics and historians, specialists and generalists.-Kenneth Craven, Scriblerian
Rawson's book shows that there is considerable life and interest left in relatively traditional literary history.-Charles A. Knight, Eighteenth-Century Studies
Rawson marshals an army of erudite references from Statius to Mailer to illuminate the major figures: Swift, Pope, Burke, Byron, and Shelley. His conversational style is wide-ranging in the best Augustan essay-mode.-Laura L. Runge, Albion