The Poetic Workmanship of Alexander Pope
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The Poetic Workmanship of Alexander Pope

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Poetic Workmanship of Alexander Pope

About this book

The Poetic Workmanship of Alexander Pope was first published in 1955. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Through a detailed examination of Alexander Pope's poetic practices, Mrs. Parkin throws light both on the craftsmanship and on the philosophical concepts which governed the creative thought of the poet. She analyzes Pope's use of such literary devices as irony, antithesis, metaphor, narrative, paradox, tension, tonal variation, and the dramatic speaker. She discusses the Pope's work as a whole. The study also provides an evaluation of the influence on Pope's work of the neo-classical concepts of genre and imitation.

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Table of contents

  1. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  2. 1 INTRODUCTION
  3. 2 THE IMPLIED DRAMATIC SPEAKER
  4. 3 IRONY
  5. 4 HUMOR
  6. 5 PARALLELISM, ANTITHESIS, AND PARADOX
  7. 6 METAPHOR
  8. 7 TENSION
  9. 8 TONAL VARIATION
  10. 9 NARRATIVE ELEMENTS
  11. 10 GENRE
  12. 11 IMITATION
  13. 12 THE APPROACH TO CORRECTIBLE EVIL
  14. 13 POPE'S POETIC WORLD
  15. INDEX