David Mallet, Anglo-Scot: Poetry, Patronage, and Politics in the Age of Union

by Sandro Jung

This study of the life and works of David Mallet (?1705-65) is the first study of Mallet for the past one hundred and fifty years and assesses the poet's significance within his own period, arguing that modern scholarship has unduly neglected this complex personality who represented changing notions in taste and aesthetics, the intersection between literature and politics, and fashioned professional personae for himself as controversial patriot-poet,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611490774
• ISBN13: 9781611490770
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 211 Pages