Through case studies of three poets using classical allusion, imitation and translation for the purpose of oppositional polemic in seventeenth-century England, this monograph examines the political ideas behind and implications of the distinct theories of intertextuality they embrace. Spanning a spectrum of political opinion from Herrick's ardent royalism, through the moderate royalism of Fanshawe to Milton's republicanism, their different stances towards political authority, gauged by their responses to the doctrine of the ...
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Through case studies of three poets using classical allusion, imitation and translation for the purpose of oppositional polemic in seventeenth-century England, this monograph examines the political ideas behind and implications of the distinct theories of intertextuality they embrace. Spanning a spectrum of political opinion from Herrick's ardent royalism, through the moderate royalism of Fanshawe to Milton's republicanism, their different stances towards political authority, gauged by their responses to the doctrine of the Divinity of Kings, inform their different conceptions of literary authority and of their relation to poets of the past. Pugh's approach gives rise to significant re-evaluations of the neglected Herrick and Fanshawe, and a challenging reappraisal of Milton's perspective on the epic tradition.
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