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... Pope's friend Lord Bolingbroke , demanding an expansion of Britain's trading empire . It was this Whig opposition which now erupted into patriotic , imperialist poetry , with Thomson's ' Rule , Britannia ' ( 1740 ) leading the way ...
... Pope's friend Lord Bolingbroke , demanding an expansion of Britain's trading empire . It was this Whig opposition which now erupted into patriotic , imperialist poetry , with Thomson's ' Rule , Britannia ' ( 1740 ) leading the way ...
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... Pope's disillusion with patriot cultural pro- jects and with the imperialist ideas of Bolingbroke led him to add a fourth book to The Dunciad , and , the following year , to revise the whole , placing the new poet laureate Colley Cibber ...
... Pope's disillusion with patriot cultural pro- jects and with the imperialist ideas of Bolingbroke led him to add a fourth book to The Dunciad , and , the following year , to revise the whole , placing the new poet laureate Colley Cibber ...
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... Pope exposes the contemporary myth of Britain's new world order of peaceful trade for what it is : the ... Pope's implication is that real liberty of thought and speech and meaningful public action are all snuffed out by ...
... Pope exposes the contemporary myth of Britain's new world order of peaceful trade for what it is : the ... Pope's implication is that real liberty of thought and speech and meaningful public action are all snuffed out by ...
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