Pope: New ContextsDavid Fairer Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990 - 251 pages |
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Page 147
... dunces to plunder and decimate the ' most distinguished Writers ' of the past : When Dulness , smiling - ' Thus revive the Wits ! But murder first , and mince them all to bits ; As erst Medea ( cruel , so to save ! ) A new Edition of ...
... dunces to plunder and decimate the ' most distinguished Writers ' of the past : When Dulness , smiling - ' Thus revive the Wits ! But murder first , and mince them all to bits ; As erst Medea ( cruel , so to save ! ) A new Edition of ...
Page 148
... dunces ' delusions which casts them in both a comic and ironic light . Dulness's incitement goes beyond holding up authors for such martyrdom , but embraces their burial and memorials too . The dunces will impose upon them beyond the ...
... dunces ' delusions which casts them in both a comic and ironic light . Dulness's incitement goes beyond holding up authors for such martyrdom , but embraces their burial and memorials too . The dunces will impose upon them beyond the ...
Page 239
... dunces ( p . 126 ) . This coinage may conceal the extent to which The Dunciad is itself a typographical triumph . Few writers were more interested in the capabilities of print and in every aspect of literary marketing than Pope . 16 ...
... dunces ( p . 126 ) . This coinage may conceal the extent to which The Dunciad is itself a typographical triumph . Few writers were more interested in the capabilities of print and in every aspect of literary marketing than Pope . 16 ...
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