Alexander Pope - Literature Diary

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Rape of the Lock – Significance of Cave of Spleen

Spleen was the Augustan name what Elizabethan described as melancholy. It is less of a disease than a fashionable affectation.…

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An epic, according to Aristotle, is the tragedy of a conspicuous person, who is involved in adventurous events and meets…

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As Shakespeare is the poet of man, Pope is a poet of society. “The Rape of the Lock” is a…

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Pope explains that “machinery” is a term invented by the critics to signify the part which deities, angles, or demons…

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The eighteenth century is and age of psychological insight. Every writer as well as his work is being analyzed…