Alexander Pope: The Poetry of Allusion"One has to look back to Mark Van Doren's momentous John Dryden for a study of a major English poet which is as ambitious in intention and as convincing in execution."--New Statesman. "Will send the reader back to his Pope with an enriched appreciation."--Times Literary Supplement. The paperback reissue of a long out-of-print classic, this volume examines how allusion works in Pope, allowing the modern reader to feel the presence of Virgil, Horace, and Homer much in the way that Pope and his contemporaries felt it and giving readers a concrete sense of the poetic voices that Pope heard as he wrote. |
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Page 163
... Horace as a writer and a symbolic figure in Pope's life and poetry . In spite of his indebtedness to Horace in his prologues and his essays in verse , Dryden confessed ' that the delight which Horace gives me is but languishing ' , and ...
... Horace as a writer and a symbolic figure in Pope's life and poetry . In spite of his indebtedness to Horace in his prologues and his essays in verse , Dryden confessed ' that the delight which Horace gives me is but languishing ' , and ...
Page 164
... Horace's Satires and Epistles offered striking parallels to his own . Like Horace , he could look about him and see some lives charmingly balanced between city and country , action and retirement , and other lives grossly submerged in ...
... Horace's Satires and Epistles offered striking parallels to his own . Like Horace , he could look about him and see some lives charmingly balanced between city and country , action and retirement , and other lives grossly submerged in ...
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The Poetry of Allusion Reuben Arthur Brower. know Horace too well , just as we know a close friend too well , to sum him up in a convenient formula or two . Moreover , Horace's work as a satirical - epistolary poet covers many years and ...
The Poetry of Allusion Reuben Arthur Brower. know Horace too well , just as we know a close friend too well , to sum him up in a convenient formula or two . Moreover , Horace's work as a satirical - epistolary poet covers many years and ...
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