Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

Abstract

This article discusses or mentions about fifty books of or about the period. Among those discussed are: James Sutherland's English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century; Major English Writers of the Eighteenth Century, edited by Harold E. Pagliaro; Howard D. Weinbrot's The Formal Strain: Studies in Augustan Imitation and Satire; William Bowman Piper's The Heroic Couplet; Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham and Expans'd Hieroglyphicks: A Critical Edition of Sir John Denham's Coopers Hill, both by Brendan 0 Hehir; Selected Poetry and Prose of John Dryden, edited by Earl Miner; H. James Jensen's A Glossary of John Dryden's Critical Terms; K. G. Hamilton's John Dryden and the Poetry of Statement; Paul Ramsey's The Art of John Dryden; Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope, edited by Aubrey Williams; J. V. Guerinot's Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744: A Descriptive Bibliography; John A. Jones's Pope's Couplet Art; John M. Aden's Something Like Horace: Studies in the Art and Allusion of Pope's Horatian Satires; Maynard Mack's The Garden and the City: Retirement and Politics in the Later Poetry of Pope 1731-1743; Denis Donoghue's Jonathan Swift: A Critical Introduction; The Novel in Letters: Epistolary Fiction in the Early English Novel 1678-1740, edited by Natascha Wiirzbach; The Richardson-Stinstra Correspondence and Stinstra's Prefaces to Clarissa, edited by William C. Slattery; B. L. Reid's The Long Boy and Others; Arthur Sherbo's Studies in the Eighteenth Century English Novel; Homer Goldberg's The Art of Joseph Andrews; Melvyn New's Laurence Sterne as Satirist: A Reading of Tristram Shandy; Robert H. Hopkins's The True Genius of Oliver Goldsmith; Samuel Johnson: The Rambler, edited by W. J. Bate and Albrecht B. Strauss; Harry M. Geduld's Prince of Publishers: A Study of the Work and Career of Jacob Tonson; and Harlan W. Hamilton's Doctor Syntax: A Silhouette of William Combe, Esq. (1742-1823).