C18th Literature and Poetry

Question 1

Benedict:
Cultural conception
Patronage

Answer 1

‘Literature was transformed into mass entertainment’ and ;cultural conception of the writer changed from courtly nobleman to drone’
Loss of ‘noble patronage’ made print a vehicle for new ‘political expression’; appeal to wider audience also affected language used in poetry

Question 2

Gerrard

Answer 2

C18th was the ‘great age of political verse’, poet’s careers and lives were ‘defined by political allegiance’

Question 3

Sfectu

Answer 3

‘the invention of the subjective self as a worthy topic, the emergence of a priority on individual psychology, against the insistence of all acts being performance…[to] the society at large’