Imagination and Power: A Study of Poetry on Public ThemesChatto & Windus, 1971 - 232 sider Discusses political poetry and the themes of power in English poetry. |
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... Pope's Epilogue It is always , of course , more than a matter of what the times are like - Pope would mainly have been Pope whenever he lived . The fierce moral and intellectual pride , the disposition to sort out mankind into friends ...
... Pope's Epilogue It is always , of course , more than a matter of what the times are like - Pope would mainly have been Pope whenever he lived . The fierce moral and intellectual pride , the disposition to sort out mankind into friends ...
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... Pope would make it clear , the current incumbents were hopelessly inadequate , because profoundly corrupt . It is essentially the posi- tion of Dryden , a plea for directing political energy not to radical revision of the system but to ...
... Pope would make it clear , the current incumbents were hopelessly inadequate , because profoundly corrupt . It is essentially the posi- tion of Dryden , a plea for directing political energy not to radical revision of the system but to ...
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... Pope has not invented the voice of FR . simply so that good sense and prudence may have the last word . To Pope's Augustan mind there is always something absurd about the idea of perfection in human form , and not even his own desire ...
... Pope has not invented the voice of FR . simply so that good sense and prudence may have the last word . To Pope's Augustan mind there is always something absurd about the idea of perfection in human form , and not even his own desire ...
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