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... force and suggestiveness of Milton's symbolic imagery , the critical attention lavished on this has tended to obscure the poem's sharpness of dramatic outline . What is needed is an explanation of this climac- tic resolution ( where the ...
... force and suggestiveness of Milton's symbolic imagery , the critical attention lavished on this has tended to obscure the poem's sharpness of dramatic outline . What is needed is an explanation of this climac- tic resolution ( where the ...
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... force of her later appeal to the Baron ? And even if it were to be answered that she changes from being a coquette at the moment when the Baron approaches with the scissors , one would still have to ask why it is that critics insist her ...
... force of her later appeal to the Baron ? And even if it were to be answered that she changes from being a coquette at the moment when the Baron approaches with the scissors , one would still have to ask why it is that critics insist her ...
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... force may be inferred from the earlier reference to the flatterer's ' slaver ' in a passage which , together with ... forces of anti - culture by a great comic genius , in the Sporus portrait Pope depicts a grotesque malformation of the ...
... force may be inferred from the earlier reference to the flatterer's ' slaver ' in a passage which , together with ... forces of anti - culture by a great comic genius , in the Sporus portrait Pope depicts a grotesque malformation of the ...
Contents
Lycidas | 28 |
The Rape of the Lock | 50 |
An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | 81 |
Copyright | |
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Aeneas Alexander Pope allusion appears Arabella Arbuthnot arguably Baron beauty Belinda Briton Bufo canto card-game character Christian companion poems contemporary context contrast coquette corruption couplet critics described Dido divine Dr Johnson dramatic dream Dryden earlier earthly lover echo English Epistle to Dr Essays example five-canto version grief heroine honour ibid Il Penseroso imagery implied inspiration interpretation introductory stanza John Milton Juvenal Juvenal's kind L'Allegro later lines literary Lock London Lycidas's Melancholy Milton's Lycidas moral Moreover motif Muses Nymph Orgilio Orpheus pagan Paradise Lost pastoral world Penseroso perhaps Phoebus poem's poet poet-speaker poetry Pope's portrait pride Rape reader reading reference regarded represented resurrection Samuel Johnson Sarpedon satire satirist seems sense significance Sporus St Peter suggest swain sylphs symbolic Thales Thalestris theme thou tion tradition Tuve Twickenham Twickenham editor two-handed engine Types of Lycidas Umbriel Verres verse verse-paragraph Walpole Walpole's woeful shepherds Wolsey words