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What can a study of Pope tell us about the eighteenth century? Was Pope the poet of reason, or an anti-establishment prophet? So many questions surround the key figures in the English literary canon, but most books focus on one aspect of an author's life or work, or limit themselves to a... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Pope: Add a description of this character.
- Horace
- Belinda
- Walpole
- Curll
- Abelard
- Milton
- Mack
- Cibber
- Bathurst
- Johnson
- Dryden
- Anne
- Swift
- Bolingbroke
- Addison
- Dennis
- Burl
- Warburton
- Barnard
- Rogers
- Theobald
- Martha Blount
- Virgil
- Hervey
- Dr Arbuthnot
- Hammond
- Mary Wortley Montagu
- Shakespeare
- Aeneas
- Leavis
- Pollak
- Denham
- Granville
- Bateson
- Bentley
- Knellwolf
- Muse
- George Ii
- Binfield
- Smedley
- Walsh
- Rumbold
- Lady Mary
- Chaucer
- Ariel
Setting & Locations edit
- London
- England
- Eloisa
- Windsor Forest
- Guerinot
- The Dunciad
- Britain
- France
- Iliad
- Grub Street
- Rochester
- Heaven
- Ceres
- Balaam
First Sentence edit
Because Pope was not primarily a lyric poet like Donne, or an explorer of private mental experience like Wordsworth, we tend to think of him as essentially a public voice, the satirist of civil follies rather than the analyst of personal emotions.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Paul Baines (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 821.5
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Poetry › Criticism
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › British
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory
- Books › Entertainment › Humor › Satire
- Books › Entertainment › Humor › Satire, General
- Books › Reference › Writing
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