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Tag: Alexander Pope

278. (Alexander Pope)

Much that is felt to be absent in Pope’s great poems—The Rape of the Lock, The Moral Epistles—is a source … More

Alexander Pope, Horace, imitation, Translation

258. (John Dryden)

For John Dryden, the world tends towards fusion and confusion and it is for the poet to establish distinctions and … More

Alexander Pope, John Dryden, T.S. Eliot

178. (John Dryden)

Since both are masters of the heroic couplet, both scathing satirists, how, it might be asked, does Dryden achieve effects … More

Alexander Pope, Homer, John Dryden, Poetry, Sublime, Virgil

106. (Alexander Pope)

Wordsworth, conceding that he knew some thousand lines of Pope’s poetry by heart,  set him nonetheless “at the foot of … More

Alexander Pope, Poetry, Stigma, William Wordsworth

99. (William Empson)

Whatever else its relationship to genre, wit is a particular way of coping with the world’s fragility, its tendency to … More

Alexander Pope, Andrew Marvell, Baudelaire, Christina Rossetti, Christopher Ricks, Jonathan Swift, Poetry, Robert Lowell, T.S. Eliot, William Empson, wit

54. (Alexander Pope)

Among the etchings on display at the MFA’s recent Goya exhibit, one from the series of Caprichos depicts an old woman, sat … More

Alexander Pope, Baudelaire, Goya, Poetry, Poetry and Painting
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