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... later in this essay . Various modern scholars have discussed the significance of ' di- vinest Melancholy'.23 They cite a number of Renaissance authors who , elaborating on the view attributed to Aristotle , established an alternative to ...
... later in this essay . Various modern scholars have discussed the significance of ' di- vinest Melancholy'.23 They cite a number of Renaissance authors who , elaborating on the view attributed to Aristotle , established an alternative to ...
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... 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 later ...
... 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 later ...
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... later attack on the court - flatterer and serpent - tempter Sporus , in whose portrait the satire of the poem reaches its climax . The poet - speaker also assumes a tone of righteous indignation when , naming Bentley and Theobald , he later ...
... later attack on the court - flatterer and serpent - tempter Sporus , in whose portrait the satire of the poem reaches its climax . The poet - speaker also assumes a tone of righteous indignation when , naming Bentley and Theobald , he later ...
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