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• Poetry: The Enlightenment and Alexander Pope's memorable phrases

  OregonLive - 7 years ago

  This month I look at the stark differences between the poetry of the Shakespearean 1600s and the subsequent English Enlightenment with the irascible colicky Alexander Pope ... to share ...
• Poems Against Poetry

  Slate - 1 decade ago

  In the 18 th century, the brilliant young poet Alexander Pope wrote a poem about critics and criticism in which he suggests that as awful as bad poetry is, bad criticism is even worse. ...
• In with the In Crowd

  Washington Post - 1 decade ago

  The 794-line poem that took London by storm in the early 18th century and established Alexander Pope's reputation now rarely appears ... picture Keira Knightley in the movie version of ...
• Mother Hubbard’s Bone, Alexander Pope’s Tea

  The Chronicle of Higher Education - 5 years ago

  “Mother Hubbard” may be an old poem, but it was published in 1805, when none had its modern pronunciation. There’s a richer lode of rhyming fossils in the poetry of Alexander ... ...
• The eternal lament of Alexander Pope

  Chicago Tribune - 1 decade ago

  Thus Alexander Pope ... title derives from a line in Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard," published in 1717. But the poem was not just another work in Pope's substantial canon, a list that ...
• The Classes 25 Famous Writers Teach

  lithub.com - 5 days ago

  Introduction to Literary and Cultural Criticism and Theory (ENGL 501), USC ... from sonnets to erasures, the prose poem and the lyrical essay, in order to discover new paths in reading ...
• Thomas M. Disch Versus the Catholic Church: “The Cardinal Detoxes”

  Los Angeles Review of Books - 1 week ago

  It was, as Disch later confessed in an essay for The Hudson Review ... been at the forefront of any national effort to censor and tone down the arts.” When criticism is based on matters ...
• Saint Michael’s College October 2017 Calendar

  VTDigger - 1 week ago

  As an on-the-ground analysis of the cause and effects of domination ... Reyes is a specialist in the fields of popular communication, culture and the arts in Cuba. Many of his poetry ...
• How to counter colonial myths about Muslim arrival in Sindh

  herald.dawn.com - 3 weeks ago

  They imagined themselves as latter-day Alexander the Greats, amassing accounts of geographies ... Habib, a Marxist historian, forcefully argued in his 1929 essay Arab Conquest of Sind ...
• A portrait of the artists as a pair of young wastrels

  standpointmag.co.uk - 1 week ago

  Alexander Pope’s Essay on Man described the fall of great figures from high office: “If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shin’d / The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind.” Alluding ...