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Article: English Clandestine Satire, 1660-1702.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2006
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English Clandestine Satire, 1660-1702. By Harold Love. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. vi+431 pp. 60 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-925561-x.
Harold Love's interest in the clandestine satire that flourished between 1660 and 1700 began when he edited The Penguin Book of Restoration Verse in 1968. His subsequent studies of scribal publication and authorship attribution, together with his 1999 edition of Rochester, have prepared the ground thoroughly for this wideranging analysis of a genre that, perhaps more than any other, is characteristic of the social, cultural, and political milieu from which Dryden, Marvell, Rochester, Etherege, and Wycherley emerge as ...