Para ir al principio del siglo XVIII, ir al final de este post, que va en orden inverso (estilo blog) como todas nuestras unidades. Empezamos este medio siglo con Sarah Egerton (al pie del post).
Y terminamos con algunos poetas de mediados de siglo—a nivel avanzado:
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NIVEL AVANZADO:
POETRY AFTER POPE (1730s-1760s)
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Empezaremos diciembre terminando la unidad 3 (principios del siglo XVIII), con Swift y Gulliver's Travels. A continuación pasamos a la unidad 4 con Richardson y Fielding.
1 dic. Hoy trataremos de Jonathan Swift. Traed el texto de Gulliver's Travels.
The Flying Island of Laputa:
"These people are under continual disquietudes, never enjoying a minutes peace of mind; and their disturbances proceed from causes which very little affect the rest of mortals. Their apprehensions arise from several changes they dread in the celestial bodies: for instance, that the earth, by the continual approaches of the sun towards it, must, in course of time, be absorbed, or swallowed up; that the face of the sun, will, by degrees, be encrusted with its own effluvia, and give no more light to the world; that the earth very narrowly escaped a brush from the tail of the last comet, which would have infallibly reduced it to ashes; and that the next, which they have calculated for one-and-thirty years hence, will probably destroy us. For if, in its perihelion, it should approach within a certain degree of the sun (as by their calculations they have reason to dread) it will receive a degree of heat ten thousand times more intense than that of red hot glowing iron, and in its absence from the sun, carry a blazing tail ten hundred thousand and fourteen miles long, through which, if the earth should pass at the distance of one hundred thousand miles from the nucleus, or main body of the comet, it must in its passage be set on fire, and reduced to ashes: that the sun, daily spending its rays without any nutriment to supply them, will at last be wholly consumed and annihilated; which must be attended with the destruction of this earth, and of all the planets that receive their light from it.
They are so perpetually alarmed with the apprehensions of these, and the like impending dangers, that they can neither sleep quietly in their beds, nor have any relish for the common pleasures and amusements of life. When they meet an acquaintance in the morning, the first question is about the sun's health, how he looked at his setting and rising, and what hopes they have to avoid the stroke of the approaching comet. This conversation they are apt to run into with the same temper that boys discover in delighting to hear terrible stories of spirits and hobgoblins, which they greedily listen to, and dare not go to bed for fear." (...)
Unos apuntes en audio sobre Jonathan Swift y Gulliver's Travels:
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JONATHAN SWIFT: NIVEL AVANZADO
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Some customs of the YAHOOS:
"As to learning, government, arts, manufactures, and the like," my master confessed, "he could find little or no resemblance between the YAHOOS of that country and those in ours; for he only meant to observe what parity there was in our natures. He had heard, indeed, some curious HOUYHNHNMS observe, that in most herds there was a sort of ruling YAHOO (as among us there is generally some leading or principal stag in a park), who was always more deformed in body, and mischievous in disposition, than any of the rest; that this leader had usually a favourite as like himself as he could get, whose employment was to lick his master's feet and posteriors, and drive the female YAHOOS to his kennel; for which he was now and then rewarded with a piece of ass's flesh. This favourite is hated by the whole herd, and therefore, to protect himself, keeps always near the person of his leader. He usually continues in office till a worse can be found; but the very moment he is discarded, his successor, at the head of all the YAHOOS in that district, young and old, male and female, come in a body, and discharge their excrements upon him from head to foot. But how far this might be applicable to our courts, and favourites, and ministers of state, my master said I could best determine."
Jonathan
Swift (1667-1745)
_____. The Battle of the Books. Written
1696-8. Pub. 1704.
_____. A
Tale of a Tub. Satire. Written 1696-8. Pub.1704, 1710.
_____, ed. The Examiner (Bolingbroke’s
Tory newspaper). 1710.
_____. Journal
to Stella. 1710-1713.
Letters
to Esther Johnson and
Rebecca Dingley. Pub.
1766-8.
_____. Argument to Prove that the
Abolishing of Christianity in England, may .... be Attained with some
Inconveniences. Pamplet. 1711.
_____. "A Proposal for Correcting,
Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue." 1712.
_____. "Cadenus and Vanessa."
Poem. 1713, pub. 1726.
_____. Public Spirit of the Whigs.
Pamphlet. 1714.
_____. "On the Corruption of the English Tongue." 1720.
_____. Proposal for the Universal
Use of Irish Manufacture. Pamphlet. 1720.
_____. Travels
into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver (GULLIVER'S TRAVELS). Written
1721-25. London, 1726.
_____. The Drapier's Letters.
Pamphlet series. 1724.
_____. A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a
Burthen to Their Parents or Country. 1729.
_____. "Verses on the Death of Dr.
Swift." Satire. 1731, pub. 1739.
_____. Works. 4 vols. Dublin:
George Faulkner, 1735.
_____. A
Complete Collection of
Genteel and Ingenuous Conversation. Satire. 1738.
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Una introducción a Swift.
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El jueves usaremos las lecturas de Addison y de Pope.
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Alexander Pope (In Our Time, BBC audio)
Alexander Pope, English poet, son of a Catholic businessman; small
and crook-backed, poor health; l. unmarried in Twickenham;
Catholic/deist, associated first with Whigs and soon with Scriblerus
club of Tory satirists; friend of Gay, Swift, Arbuthnot, Bolingbroke;
quarrelsome man of letters, conservative Tory critic of men and
manners; neoclassical model in English poetry after Dryden and major poet of "The Age of Pope".
AQUÍ UNOS
APUNTES SOBRE ALEXANDER POPE,
&
some works by
ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)
_____. Pastorals. 1709.
_____. An
Essay on Criticism. 1711.
_____. The Temple of Fame.
Imitation of Chaucer. Written c. 1711, pub. 1715.
_____. The Rape of the Lock. First version. 1712. Enlarged ed. 1714.
_____. "Windsor Forest." 1713.
_____. The Iliad
of Homer Translated. 1715-20.
_____. "Epistle of Eloisa to Abelard." Poem. 1717.
_____. Epistles. (To Addison, etc.).
_____. The Works.
1717.
_____. "Preface to The Works of Shakespear." 1725.
_____, trans. The Odyssey of Homer.
1725-26. (In collaboration)
_____. Peri Bathous or, The Art
of Sinking in Poetry.
1727.
_____. The
Dunciad. 1728-1743.
_____. Moral Essays. 1731-35.
_____. Correspondence. 1735.
_____. Essay on
Man. 1733-1734.
_____. Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot.
Poem. 1735.
_____. Imitations of Horace. 1737.
_____. The Universal Prayer.
1738.
Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot, Parnell, Gay, Oxford. (Ps. "Martinus
Scriblerus"). Memoirs of Martinus
Scriblerus. Written c. 1712-14, pub. 1741.
_____. Miscellanies. 1727-32.
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NIVEL AVANZADO: Alexander Pope
Pope and his elder contemporaries in verse (Saintsbury)
Otra poetisa importante del círculo de Pope: Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
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LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (1689-1762, née Mary
Pierrepont)
_____. Town Eclogues and Court Poems. 1716.
_____. (Anon.). The Nonsense of
Common Sense. Periodical. 1737-38.
_____. Letters. 4 vols.
1763-7.
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JOHN GAY (1685-1732)
_____. Wine. Poem. 1708.
_____. The Shepherd's Week.
Mock pastorals. 1714.
_____. Trivia, or the Art of Walking
the Streets of London. Mock georgic. 1716.
_____. Acis and Galatea.
Libretto for Handel's opera. 1718.
_____. Fables. 1727, 1738.
_____. The Beggar's Opera.
Musical. 1728. (some songs here)
_____. Polly. Musical. 1729.
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Ahora que estáis empezando a hacer los trabajos de curso,
recordad que tenéis información bibliográfica sobre los distintos
autores en Google, claro, pero también en mi Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology (sección "Authors".
También hay otras secciones sobre géneros, épocas, etc.). http://bit.ly/abiblio
25 Nov. Nuestra primera lectura hoy será el ensayo de Addison 'On the Scale of Being'
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NIVEL AVANZADO:
George Berkeley
(Kilkenny, Ireland 1685-Oxford 1753 - Anglican bishop and "immaterialist" philosopher):
_____. An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision. 2nd
ed. 1709.
_____. A Treatise
Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. 1710,
1734.
_____. Three
Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous. London, 1713.
_____. (Anonymous). Essay Towards
Preventing the Ruin of Great Britain.
1721.
_____. Proposal for the Better
Supplying of Churches in our foreign
Plantations. 1725.
_____. Alciphron: or, The Minute
Philosopher. 1732.
_____. Theory of Vision, or Visual
Language Vindicated and
Explained. 1733.
_____. The Analyst.
Mathematical theory. 1734.
_____. The Querist.
Periodical. 1735.
_____. Some Thoughts on the Tillage
of Ireland. Dublin, 1738.
_____. Siris: A Chain of
Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries
concerning the Virtues of Tar-Water. 1744.
_____. Verses on the Prospect of
Planting Arts and Learning in America.
1752.
NIVEL AVANZADO: Empiricism and the Mind
- Another "immaterialist":
Arthur Collier (1680-1732)
_____. Clavis Universalis: or a New
Inquiry after Truth, Being a Demonstration of the Non-Existence, or
Impossibility, of an External World. 1713.
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Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
Or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying
Glasses… London, 1665.
A mite, an illustration from Robert Hooke's Micrographia:
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Works by Addison and Steele:
Joseph Addison. The Campaign. Epic poem.
1704.
_____. Milton's Style Imitated in a
Translation out of . . . the Third
Aeneid. 1704.
_____. Rosamond. Opera. 1707.
(Aria
"Rise, glory, rise." from Rosamond)
_____. Cato: A Tragedy. 1713.
_____. Notes upon the Twelve Books
of PARADISE LOST. London, 1719.
_____. The Old Whig. Serial
pamphlet. 1719.
Addison, Joseph, and Richard Steele.
The Tatler. Periodical
essay.
1709-11.
_____. The
Spectator. Periodical essay. 1711-12.
Steele, Richard. The
Christian Hero.
Political pamphlet. 1701.
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The Tender
Husband.
Drama. 1705.
_____. Poems in The Muses Mercury.
_____. The Gazette. Official
periodical. 1707-10.
_____. The Crisis. Pamphlet.
1713.
_____. The Reader.
Periodical. 1714.
_____. Town Talk. Periodical.
1715-16.
_____. Political pamphlets.
1715.
_____. The Tea-Table.
Periodical. 1715-16.
_____. Chit-Chat. Periodical.
1716.
_____. The Conscious Lovers.
Drama. Prod. Nov. 1722.
_____, ed. The Examiner.
Newspaper. (Nos. 14-46, October, 1710).
_____, ed. The
Guardian. Periodical. (175
nos. 1713).
Monthly miscellany. 1707.
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NIVEL AVANZADO:
-
Addison on Aliens
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Some Augustan prose writers
- Two novelists in the wake of Defoe's fictional memoirs:
ROBERT PALTOCK (1697-1769)
- The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins. 1751.
JOHN CLELAND (1710-1789)
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El miércoles trataremos de Sarah Egerton, y luego de Daniel
Defoe y Robinson Crusoe: id leyendo la selección que las de las novelas
empiezan a ser un poquito largas.
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DANIEL DEFOE (1660-1731)
Daniel Defoe, English journalist and novelist, b. London; Daniel Foe to
1695; lower middle class dissenter; st. Newington Green, abandoned
plans to become a Presbyterian minister, joined Monmouth's rebellion; married, set up import and export
business, joined King William's invading forces, bankrupt businessman,
then Whig journalist and political activist, pilloried and imprisoned
1703-4, double agent, collaborated with Tory government of Harley, travelled
throughout Britain, political activist and informer; supported
union with Scotland and Hanoverian succession; imprisoned
again 1713; then worked again with Whigs;
l. Stoke Newington, turned "novelist" in old age, died while in hiding
from creditors.
_____. An Essay upon Projects.
1697.
_____. Enquiry into the Occasional
Conformity of Dissenters. Pamphlet.
1698.
_____. Legion's Memorial to the
House of Commons. Pamphlet. 1701.
_____. The True-Born
Englishman. Satirical poem. 1701.
_____. The Shortest Way with the
Dissenters. Hoax pamphlet. 1702.
_____. Hymn to the Pillory.
Satirical poem. 1702.
_____. The Storm.
Journalistic pamphlet. 1703.
_____. The Review.
Journalism. 1704-13.
_____. True Relation of the
Apparition of one Mrs. Veal. Tale. 1706.
_____. The History of the Union of
Great Britain. Edinburgh, 1709.
_____. Mercator, or Commerce
Retriev'd. Journal. 1713-14.
_____. The Life
and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,
of York, Mariner. Memoir novel. 1719. (ebook
here)
_____. The Farther Adventures of
Robinson Crusoe: Being the Second and
Last Part of his Life. Narrative. 1719.
_____. Serious Reflections during
the Life and Surprising Adventures of
Robinson Crusoe: With his Vision of the Angelick World.
1720.
_____. The Memoirs of a Cavalier.
Memoir novel. 1720.
_____. Captain Singleton.
Memoir novel. 1720.
_____. The
Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders. Memoir
novel. 1722.
_____. Colonel Jacque.
Memoir novel. 1722.
_____. A Journal
of the Plague Year. Apocryphal memoir. 1722.
_____. Religious Courtship. Moral
treatise. 1722.
_____. Roxana,
The Fortunate Mistress. Memoir novel. 1724. (ebook)
_____. A Tour Through the Whole
Island of Great Britain. Guide
book. 3 vols. 1724-26.
_____. The Complete English
Tradesman. Non-fiction. 1726.
_____. An Essay upon Literature. 1726.
_____. The Political History of the Devil. 1727.
_____. A System of Magick, or A History of the Black Art. 1727.
_____. A Plan of the English Commerce.
Non-fiction. 1728.
_____. The Complete English
Gentleman. Non-fiction. Pub. 1890.
Apuntes
sobre Daniel Defoe, del Oxford
Companion to English Literature. Más, en cualquiera de
vuestros manuales.
Y aquí una vieja película sobre
Robinson Crusoe, del
director aragonés Luis Buñuel:
- Daniel Defoe (Wikipedia)
- Para el contexto histórico de Defoe y su época. Una conferencia sobre La expansión colonial del imperio británico del siglo XVI al XVIII.
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NIVEL AVANZADO:
From Queen Anne to the Georges
NIVEL AVANZADO: Daniel Defoe
A wider context for Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year: Plagues and plague literature.
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SARAH
FYGE EGERTON (1670-1723)
Sarah Egerton, née Fyge, outspoken
feminist, precocious writer, sent
to the country by her parents to repress her, forced to marry Edward
Field, widow, married cousin Reverend Thomas Egerton, unsuccessfuly
sued for
divorce, loved Henry Pierce, scandal and public ridicule, attacked by
Mary Delariviere Manley in The New
Atalantis.
_____. (anon.). The Female Advocate
or, an Answer to a Late Satyr Against the Pride, Lust and Inconstancy,
c. of Woman. Written by a Lady in Vindication of her Sex. 1686.
(A verse satire published in response to Robert Gould's misogynist
satire, Love Given O'er: A Satire Against the
Pride, Lust, and Inconstancy, etc. of Woman, 1682).
_____. (signed S. F.). Poems on
Several Occasions, Together with a Pastoral… 1703.
_____. "The Emulation." In Representative Poetry Online.*
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/emulation
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- Aquí hay algunos
títulos relativos al comienzo del periodismo en el siglo XVII.
