Reforming taste through Pope’s ‘celebrated moonlight scene’: Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth’s ‘A Night-Piece’
In ‘Essay, Supplementary to the Preface’ (1815), Wordsworth condemned Pope’s ‘celebrated moonlight scene in the Iliad’. Pope’s ‘passage of descriptive poetry, which at this day finds so many and such ardent admirers’, did not impress Wordsworth, Southey, and Coleridge, all three of whom drew specifi...
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Edinburgh University Press
2023
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