By Harold Love
Within the first accomplished survey of this substantial box, Harold Love considers the connection of the lampoon to gossip, how one could build a poetics of the style, and the way clandestine satire reached and used to be got by means of its readers. developing 3 basic different types of "court," "Town" and "state" lampooning, Love argues that faraway from being the made of remoted disaffection, so much satire was once the paintings of a circle of famous poets, often working in collaboration. an intensive first-line index to the valuable manuscript assets for clandestine satire makes this ebook an open sesame to additional exploration of its interesting field.
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