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... satiric sort , is gradually humanized to substantial knowledge , and the poet is led from more or less severe isolation to a certain degree of involvement in a world partly redeemed . On the other hand , there is the pattern of the satires ...
... satiric sort , is gradually humanized to substantial knowledge , and the poet is led from more or less severe isolation to a certain degree of involvement in a world partly redeemed . On the other hand , there is the pattern of the satires ...
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... satiric stasis is broken and the characters , both satirists and fools , are swept forward into the miraculous transforma- tions of comedy or the cruel dialectic of tragedy . " 11 Pope achieves considerable complexity of tone by ...
... satiric stasis is broken and the characters , both satirists and fools , are swept forward into the miraculous transforma- tions of comedy or the cruel dialectic of tragedy . " 11 Pope achieves considerable complexity of tone by ...
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... satiric and theodicean , although a consistently satiric tone in some portions of the poem may obscure this distinction . ( Within a satiric passage , that is , it may still be possible to distinguish between the satiric and theodicean ...
... satiric and theodicean , although a consistently satiric tone in some portions of the poem may obscure this distinction . ( Within a satiric passage , that is , it may still be possible to distinguish between the satiric and theodicean ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Human Knowledge and Poetic Structure | 37 |
The Epistolary Pattern | 108 |
Copyright | |
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