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Page 77
... epic journeys to the underworld , though the most closely resembling classical analogue to Pope's passage is Ovid's Cave of Envy ( Metamorphoses , II . 760ff . ) . Mock - epic analogues include the antre of Chicane in Le Lutrin ( V ...
... epic journeys to the underworld , though the most closely resembling classical analogue to Pope's passage is Ovid's Cave of Envy ( Metamorphoses , II . 760ff . ) . Mock - epic analogues include the antre of Chicane in Le Lutrin ( V ...
Page 79
... epic is on the agenda . Denial of actual warfare is not suggested : it is an accentuated awareness of it that , in my judgement , led to embarrassment about its centrality in epic poems . The feeling that the heroic would be ...
... epic is on the agenda . Denial of actual warfare is not suggested : it is an accentuated awareness of it that , in my judgement , led to embarrassment about its centrality in epic poems . The feeling that the heroic would be ...
Page 88
... epic , unless perhaps some things from the rhetorical excesses of the Latin Silver Age . If there's a specific epic allusion in the lines beginning ' But anxious Cares the pensive Nymph opprest , / And secret Passions labour'd in her ...
... epic , unless perhaps some things from the rhetorical excesses of the Latin Silver Age . If there's a specific epic allusion in the lines beginning ' But anxious Cares the pensive Nymph opprest , / And secret Passions labour'd in her ...
Contents
Pope and Slavery | 27 |
The Shadow of Friendship | 55 |
Popes Epic Idiom Revisited | 69 |
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