Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
… Horatian imitation, Wortley Montagu and her ally Lord Hervey describe Pope as ‘No more for loving made than to be loved’. 3 Elsewhere in their Verses Address’d to the Imitator (1733), he is presented as a vile, subhuman fiend, unfit … own time and throughout history. His Eloisa, the speaker in 1717’s Eloisa to Abelard , yearns for her cruelly castrated lover while confined to a twelfth-century convent, and ends her soliloquy by communing across the centuries with Pope himself: ‘some future Bard […] / who loves so long, so well’. 5 And in The Rape of the Lock , although deriding a social world which would prioritise the …
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