Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
… by the Whig prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole. When he describes himself in one of his imitations of Horace as ‘ To virtue only and her friends , a friend ’, not only does Pope demonstrate the self-serving nature of his sociable ethos, … Indeed, it would be a mistake to identify either Pope or his many foes as being consistent defenders of sociable virtue. Notwithstanding his cultivation of an idealistically sociable identity, Pope was perfectly capable of playing the … Munster Symposium on Jonathan Swift (Paderborn: Fink, 2008), p. 131-148. As it transpires, such equivocation about the virtues of Pope’s poetry will be no guarantee of Marianne’s romantic fulfilment. Nonetheless, the business of admiring …
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