A Travelling Man Eighteenth Century Essays

"These essays by critic and poet Donald Davie explore the 18th centuryùits literature, its religion and politics, and its culture in the broadest sense. Critically engaged are Berkeley, Swift, Goldsmith, Smart, Cowper, Johnson, the Augustan lyric, the hymn writers, the Dissenters, and diction and irony. Areas of culture are made accessible that Romanticism and lazy reading have fenced off as dull and closed."

'The Fountain'	v
Introduction by Doreen Davie	ix
I Berkeley's Style in Siris	1	(7)
II Berkeley and 'Philosophic Words'	8
III Irony and Conciseness in Berkeley and in Swift	1	(22)
IV Scientist; Philosopher; Poet	23	(10)
V Berkeley and the Style of Dialogue	33	(14)
VI The Language of Science and the Language of Literature, 1700-1740	47	(36)
VII The Deserted Village: Poem as Virtual History	83	(12)
VIII Dramatic Poetry: Dryden's Conversation-Piece	95	(9)
IX The Critical Principles of William Cowper	104	(7)
X Christopher Smart: Some Neglected Poems	111	(20)
XI Yeats, Berkeley and Romanticism	131	(6)
XII Augustan Lyric	137	(22)
XIII Trevenen	159	(10)
XIV Politics and Literature: John Adams and Doctor Johnson	169	(15)
XV Edward Taylor and Isaac Watts	184	(14)
XVI Old Dissent, 1700-1740	198	(15)
XVII Dissent and the Wesleyans, 1740-1800	213	(19)
XVIII Notes on Goldsmith's Politics	232	(9)
XIX Goldsmith as Monarchist	241	(12)
XX Disaffection of the Dissenters under George III	253	(26)
Index	279

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