The Cambridge Companion to Alexander PopePat Rogers Cambridge University Press, 06.12.2007 Alexander Pope was the greatest poet of his age and the dominant influence on eighteenth-century British poetry. His large oeuvre, written over a thirty-year period, encompasses satires, odes and political verse and reflects the sexual, moral and cultural issues of the world around him, often in brilliant lines and phrases which have become part of our language today. This is the first overview to analyse the full range of Pope's work and to set it in its historical and cultural context. Specially commissioned essays by leading scholars explore all of Pope's major works, including the sexual politics of The Rape of the Lock, the philosophical enquiries of An Essay on Man and the Moral Essays, and the mock-heroic of The Dunciad in its various forms. This volume will be indispensable not only for students and scholars of Pope's work, but also for all those interested in the Augustan age. |
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... Poets, iii, 188) Alexander Pope, eighteenth-century England's most prominent poet and his generation's most frequentlyportrayed celebrity, dominated the emergent literary marketplace as the first self-supporting, non-playwriting ...
... Poets, iii, 188) Alexander Pope, eighteenth-century England's most prominent poet and his generation's most frequentlyportrayed celebrity, dominated the emergent literary marketplace as the first self-supporting, non-playwriting ...
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... poet both as master painter and visual curiosity. His “libel'd Person” and “pictur'd Shape” (Arbuthnot, 353) – distorted in caricature in cheap printed pamphlets, idealized in neoclassical grandeur in busts, frontispieces, and on mock ...
... poet both as master painter and visual curiosity. His “libel'd Person” and “pictur'd Shape” (Arbuthnot, 353) – distorted in caricature in cheap printed pamphlets, idealized in neoclassical grandeur in busts, frontispieces, and on mock ...
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... poet,the dutiful translatorand ambitious emulator of the classics,the mature moral arbiter, and ultimately the great negator of English satire – as excluded from what he celebrates, or implicated in what he rejects. Whether he is Leslie ...
... poet,the dutiful translatorand ambitious emulator of the classics,the mature moral arbiter, and ultimately the great negator of English satire – as excluded from what he celebrates, or implicated in what he rejects. Whether he is Leslie ...
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... poet's own mother believed to be marked by excessive love of literature, Pope's poetry emerges from the intersection of creative imagination and shameful objectification, of self and world, of life and art. The greatest paradox any ...
... poet's own mother believed to be marked by excessive love of literature, Pope's poetry emerges from the intersection of creative imagination and shameful objectification, of self and world, of life and art. The greatest paradox any ...
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... poet's flaws: I love to pour out all my self as plain As downright Shippen or as old Montagne . . . In me what Spots (for Spots I have) appear, Will prove at least the Medium must be clear. (Sat, ii.i, 51–6) We might read this passage ...
... poet's flaws: I love to pour out all my self as plain As downright Shippen or as old Montagne . . . In me what Spots (for Spots I have) appear, Will prove at least the Medium must be clear. (Sat, ii.i, 51–6) We might read this passage ...
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Seite 232 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Seite 161 - But though the ancients thus their rules invade (As kings dispense with laws themselves have made), Moderns, beware! or if you must offend Against the precept, ne'er transgress its end; Let it be seldom, and compell'd by need; And have, at least, their precedent to plead.
Seite 32 - With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast...
Seite 57 - See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again: All forms that perish other forms supply; (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of Matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Seite 57 - Look round our world; behold the chain of love Combining all below and all above. See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbour to embrace. See Matter next, with various life endued, Press to one centre still, the general good.
Seite 64 - Some to the sun their insect-wings unfold, Waft on the breeze, or sink in clouds of gold ; Transparent forms, too fine for mortal sight, Their fluid bodies half...
Seite 89 - To one small sect, and all are damn'd beside. Meanly they seek the blessing to confine. And force that sun but on a part to shine, Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, But ripens spirits in cold northern climes...
Seite 67 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Seite 57 - Nothing is foreign ; parts relate to whole ; One all-extending, all-preserving Soul Connects each being, greatest with the least ; Made beast in aid of man, and man of beast ; All served, all serving : nothing stands alone ; The chain holds on, and where it ends unknown.