id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 27776 Lloyd, Evan The Methodist A Poem .txt text/plain 11172 1068 85 Evan Lloyd's works consist chiefly of four satires written in 1766 a short-lived revolt against the tyranny of Augustan satire and shows Augustan satiric alternative--returning to older beliefs in religion, long, wandering sentences--seems to move, as does Robert Lloyd's satire Evan Lloyd's first satire, _The Powers of the Pen_, is a clever but ordinary satire on good and bad writing. problem with all of Lloyd's satires except _The Methodist_, and the same Lloyd is the one anti-Methodist satirist who explores the larger Lloyd constructs his satire around the theme of general corruption, that The Methodist practice of lay preachers, for example, Lloyd conclusion of the satire he asks God to halt the Methodist movement within." This condition of the world can be expressed satirically by a After _The Methodist_ Lloyd wrote _Conversation_, a satire that not only of any earlier satire of Lloyd's. Lloyd, in writing _The Methodist_, seems to have come as close as any ./cache/27776.txt ./txt/27776.txt