Pope: New ContextsDavid Fairer Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990 - 251 pages |
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Page 207
... Essay . Fabian , for instance , suggests that Pope constructs a Lucretian didactic poem , but sub- stitutes ' Newton's world view for Lucretius's ' . Hammond's rejec- tion of this view raises two important problems . First he quotes ...
... Essay . Fabian , for instance , suggests that Pope constructs a Lucretian didactic poem , but sub- stitutes ' Newton's world view for Lucretius's ' . Hammond's rejec- tion of this view raises two important problems . First he quotes ...
Page 209
... essay . II In this context , it is worth examining the consequences of the form and familiar address of the polite prose essay itself . It is important to correct at the outset the misleading impression , encouraged by some critical ...
... essay . II In this context , it is worth examining the consequences of the form and familiar address of the polite prose essay itself . It is important to correct at the outset the misleading impression , encouraged by some critical ...
Page 210
... Essays Moral and Divine ' with his ' Papers of Humour and Learning ' . In no . 249 he argues that the looseness of the essay form makes it ideally suited to treat subjects for which there is no literary precedent : When I make Choice of ...
... Essays Moral and Divine ' with his ' Papers of Humour and Learning ' . In no . 249 he argues that the looseness of the essay form makes it ideally suited to treat subjects for which there is no literary precedent : When I make Choice of ...
Contents
Pope and the Patriots Christine Gerrard | 25 |
Pope and the idea | 45 |
Belinda Bays and epic effeminacy | 59 |
Copyright | |
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Addison Alexander Pope argue Augustan authority becomes Belinda Blake Blake's Bolingbroke century character Cibber Cobham Coleridge context contradiction couplet court criticism cultural discourse distinction Dryden Dulness dunces Dunciad edited effeminacy eighteenth eighteenth-century Eloisa to Abelard English epic Epistle epitaph Essay example father female feminine Frederick genius George Lyttelton Hanoverian Heraclitus hero heroic Homer Horace Howard Erskine-Hill human idea ideal identity ideology Iliad imagination Imitation J. H. Plumb Jacobitism John language laureate Leopold Damrosch letter literary literature Lock London Lyttelton masculine masquerade metaphor Milton misogyny moral nature Odyssey opposition Paradise Lost passage passion Patriot Phaeacians poem poet poetic political Pope's poetry Popeian Prelude Prince prose Queen Quincey Rape reader revolution rhetoric Romantic satire Scriblerian sense sexual Sherburn social Spectator Stuart suggests Swift things thought Tory tradition translation University verse voice vols Oxford Walpole Whig William William Wordsworth Windsor-Forest woman women words Wordsworth writing