Poems on Affairs of State - Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714

Lord, George de Forest and others edit

Seven volumes: The political climate of mid 17th through to early 18th century England - civil war, Charles I, Charles II – and other factors produced 'an audience for literature that lampooned, satirised and exposed the activities of public institutions and political players'. Sound familiar? This set collects poems ranging across 'all manner of subjects, including war, religion and party politics, as well as royal mistresses and literary rivalries. Personal attacks were common, and it was as much a prominent man or woman's politics as their personal life that came under fire from satirists '. Or, the opinions of social media with wit, as dagger in most of these, added. Arranged chronologically, notes, illustrations, each volume indexed; c.4,000pp. of English history presented as satire.

Publisher: Yale University Press. First American editions thus 1963-1975
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: New Haven
Owner's blind stamps in vols.1 and 7, small abrasion to front free endpaper of vol.5, else all fine in dustwrappers as issued. The seven vols.


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