Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… poetic or artistic capability of the person receiving patronage. 1 . For example Charles Churchill, The Author. A Poem (London: W. Flexney, 1763), p. 3-4; James Ralph, The Case of Authors by Profession or Trade, Stated. With Regard to Booksellers, the Stage, and the Public. No Matter by Whom (London: R. Griffiths, 1758). 2 . Paul J. Korshin, ‘Types of Eighteenth-Century Literary Patronage’, Eighteenth-Century … of literary texts. 4 . Oliver Goldsmith, Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe, 2nd ed. (London: J. Dodsley, 1774), p. 93. Paul Korshin describes the system of patronage in the eighteenth century as being in a …
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