John Oldham and the Renewal of Classical Culture

John Oldham and the Renewal of Classical Culture

A 1983 critical study of John Oldham (1653-1883), one of the most important English poets of the later seventeenth century.

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Preface
A note on texts
Prologue
1. Origins
2. Indirections
3. 1678: A Letter from the Country to a friend in Twon, The Desk, Poems on the Popish Plot
4. Horace: Horace His Art of Poetry, An Imitation of Horace Book I. Satyr IX, Two paraphrases from Horace: Carmina I.xxxi and II.civ
5. Juvenal: Juvenal in the seventeenth century, The Thirteenth Satyr of Juvenal, Imitated, A Satyr, in Imitation of the Third of Juvenal
6. Boileau: The Eighth Satyr of Monsieur Boileau, Imitated, A Satyr Touching Nobility: out of Monsieur Boileau, A Satyr Dissuading from Poetry, A Satyr addressed to a Friend
Epilogue: To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
Chronological table
Notes
Bibliography
Index.