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... satire a species of heroic poetry in its own right.3 Such an idea , fraught with paradox and inevitably subject to con- straints and complications , seems to have inspired the practice of poets , including Dryden himself , even before ...
... satire a species of heroic poetry in its own right.3 Such an idea , fraught with paradox and inevitably subject to con- straints and complications , seems to have inspired the practice of poets , including Dryden himself , even before ...
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... satire , though it also seems a self - conscious fulfilment of the project or aspir- ation implicit in Dryden's Discourse of making satire a species of heroic poetry in its own right . In Pope's hands , this sometimes receives ...
... satire , though it also seems a self - conscious fulfilment of the project or aspir- ation implicit in Dryden's Discourse of making satire a species of heroic poetry in its own right . In Pope's hands , this sometimes receives ...
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... satire on Wordsworth and his circle , Peter Bell the Third , a studiously flat , often brilliantly astringent downscaling . Its London is also infernal , or rather vice versa : ' Hell is a city much like London - / A populous and a ...
... satire on Wordsworth and his circle , Peter Bell the Third , a studiously flat , often brilliantly astringent downscaling . Its London is also infernal , or rather vice versa : ' Hell is a city much like London - / A populous and a ...
Contents
Pope and Slavery | 27 |
The Shadow of Friendship | 55 |
Popes Epic Idiom Revisited | 69 |
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