You can’t prove I meant X
Clare Bucknell, 16 April 2020
Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel, 1660-1820
by Thomas Keymer.
Oxford, 352 pp., £25, October 2019,978 0 19 874449 8 Show More
by Thomas Keymer.
Oxford, 352 pp., £25, October 2019,
“... Pope’s scarred, elliptical fragment One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty was first published by Joseph Warton in 1797, accompanied by a note praising the satire’s bold manoeuvres under the ‘Argus Eye’ of the authorities. For Byron in the early 1820s, no radical publications of recent years could match the virulence and courage of Fielding’s Jonathan ... ”