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... obviously essential to the dramatic structure of the poem . Yet the large majority of the poem's recent critics have inter- preted St Peter's message as even less optimistic than Phoebus's . According to Cleanth Brooks and John Edward ...
... obviously essential to the dramatic structure of the poem . Yet the large majority of the poem's recent critics have inter- preted St Peter's message as even less optimistic than Phoebus's . According to Cleanth Brooks and John Edward ...
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John P. Hardy. brought to paper without any obvious plan or artifice , yet capable of embracing whatever concerns or ... obviously lies at the very heart of Pope's Epistle . Arguably of more relevance is the con- cluding section of the ...
John P. Hardy. brought to paper without any obvious plan or artifice , yet capable of embracing whatever concerns or ... obviously lies at the very heart of Pope's Epistle . Arguably of more relevance is the con- cluding section of the ...
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... obvious that Pope , in giving a different emphasis by this poignant mention of his friend , highlights the self - interest ... obviously has the Queen's ear , is in a position to infect with his toad - like venom the very source of power ...
... obvious that Pope , in giving a different emphasis by this poignant mention of his friend , highlights the self - interest ... obviously has the Queen's ear , is in a position to infect with his toad - like venom the very source of power ...
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