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Page 93
... political corruption also reaches its climax in the portrait of Sporus , where it merges with all the other aspects of contemporary degeneracy that caught Pope's attention . There the corruption that , in the cosmos of the poem , began ...
... political corruption also reaches its climax in the portrait of Sporus , where it merges with all the other aspects of contemporary degeneracy that caught Pope's attention . There the corruption that , in the cosmos of the poem , began ...
Page 213
... political argument is reticulated over this framework in an especially effective manner . He has managed to insinuate an analogy between moral and political evil , and to incorporate this into the primary movement of the Imitation ...
... political argument is reticulated over this framework in an especially effective manner . He has managed to insinuate an analogy between moral and political evil , and to incorporate this into the primary movement of the Imitation ...
Page 214
... political corruption in the Ulysses passage ( 118-25 ) is a perfect illustration and proof of Pope's entire argument ... politics . Pope's imitation of Horace's Ep.I.vi. bases itself firmly on that premise , and by this means becomes a ...
... political corruption in the Ulysses passage ( 118-25 ) is a perfect illustration and proof of Pope's entire argument ... politics . Pope's imitation of Horace's Ep.I.vi. bases itself firmly on that premise , and by this means becomes a ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SATIRE | 37 |
APOLOGIA PRO VITA | 73 |
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