Alexander Pope; Tradition and IdentityHarvard University Press, 1972 - 241 Seiten The author's main concern is the interaction of Pope's growing sense of his own identity with his admiration and emulation of great writers of the past. He sympathetically portrays basic biographical facts that contributed to Pope's identity as man and as poet, among them his physical deformity, his constant illnesses, his subjection to anti-Catholic bias, and his political alienation. |
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... authors vary so much in the conception of their past that , as Jorge Luis Borges says , an author seems to create his precursors . The creation of the past in this sense may appear challenging and exciting , but any author knows that in ...
... authors vary so much in the conception of their past that , as Jorge Luis Borges says , an author seems to create his precursors . The creation of the past in this sense may appear challenging and exciting , but any author knows that in ...
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... author does not deserve being made an object of ridicule . " I wish we had the humanity to reflect that even the worst authors might , in their endeavour to please us , deserve something at our hands . " Bad poets , however , deserve ...
... author does not deserve being made an object of ridicule . " I wish we had the humanity to reflect that even the worst authors might , in their endeavour to please us , deserve something at our hands . " Bad poets , however , deserve ...
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... authors will also afford me a great variety of subjects , not to mention editors , commentators , and others , who are often men of no learning , or what is as bad , of no knowledge . To Swift , the author of the Battle of the Books , A ...
... authors will also afford me a great variety of subjects , not to mention editors , commentators , and others , who are often men of no learning , or what is as bad , of no knowledge . To Swift , the author of the Battle of the Books , A ...
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The Pantheon of Literature | 1 |
neoclassical dilemma concordia discors resolution | 25 |
Homer and the Heroic Ideal | 83 |
Urheberrecht | |
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