Origins and models -- The court lampoon -- The town lampoon -- State satire -- Lampoon authorship -- The lampoon as gossip -- A poetics of the lampoon -- Transmission and reception
Summary
Harold Love presents a comprehensive account of the thousands of lampoons and more serious 'state poems' that survive from Restoration England and their impact on the life of the nation and the literary practice of satire
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-420) and index