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 44
... contrast to the smooth - gliding embrace of the rivers below . As a whole the passage expresses most wonderfully the magic richness and the historical depth of the Italian landscape . Virgil's appreciation ( as James might say ) is at ...
... contrast to the smooth - gliding embrace of the rivers below . As a whole the passage expresses most wonderfully the magic richness and the historical depth of the Italian landscape . Virgil's appreciation ( as James might say ) is at ...
Page 110
... contrast in the last line is Homer's - ' improved ' , to be sure - but rightly made emphatic , since it expresses the essential heroic gesture . But in the contrast of ' pay ' and ' bestow ' there is an upper - class insolence , a ...
... contrast in the last line is Homer's - ' improved ' , to be sure - but rightly made emphatic , since it expresses the essential heroic gesture . But in the contrast of ' pay ' and ' bestow ' there is an upper - class insolence , a ...
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... contrast at once picturesque and ironic . The union of qualities can be felt in the full Latin weight of ' pompous ' , an adjective recalling the portrait in Epistle IV of the Essay on Man , where the satiric point is borne in imagery ...
... contrast at once picturesque and ironic . The union of qualities can be felt in the full Latin weight of ' pompous ' , an adjective recalling the portrait in Epistle IV of the Essay on Man , where the satiric point is borne in imagery ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Aeneid Alexander Pope allusion amusing ancient Augustan beauty Book charming close contrast couplet death descriptive diction divine dramatic Dryden Dunciad echo Eclogue effect eighteenth-century Eloisa Eloisa to Abelard English epic Epistle epithet Essay on Criticism ev'ry example expression F. R. Leavis Fame feel fools Georgics give glory Greek happy Heav'n hero heroic Homer Horace Horace's Horatian ideal Iliad imagery imitation ironic irony kind later less lines literary living Lock Lykia manner Menoitios metaphor Milton mind mode Moral Essays nature o'er Ovid Ovidian painting parody passage passion pastoral philosophic picture poem poet poetic poetry Pope Pope's portrait praise pride Rape readers rhetorical rhythm Roman Sarpedon satirical scene sense shining simile song soul speech style talk thee theme Theocritus thou thro tion tone tradition translation verse Virgil Virgilian virtue Windsor Forest words writing Zeus