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1 online resource |
Contents |
'So vast is Art, so narrow Human Wit': Subordinating Part to Whole in An Essay on Criticism -- 'Slave to No Sect': From Part to Whole -- Avoiding Deism's 'High Priori Road': A Catholic Sensibility and a Layman's Faith -- A Emergent Conclusion |
Summary |
This lively, accessible book reveals the character - and timeliness - of Alexander Pope's thinking and art. G. Douglas Atkins focuses on the religious position of a poet who would not abandon the Roman Catholic Church. In our own highly partisan culture, such a position offers an important example. Bringing his expertise in religion and literature to bear, Atkins establishes that Pope was, as an anti-sectarian, not a Deist but a Catholic, a layman, and essayist. Through comparison with John Dryden, Jonathan Swift, and T.E. Eliot, this study sheds new light on 'The Universal Prayer, ' 'An Essay on Criticism, ' 'Moral Essays', and the four-part 'Dunciad'. Ultimately, Pope emerges as a religious poet of the first rank |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
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Subject |
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
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Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 -- Religion
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SUBJECT |
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 fast |
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Pope, Alexander 1688-1744 gnd |
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Religious poetry, English -- History and criticism -- 18th century
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
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Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature.
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Religion
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Religious poetry, English
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Religiƶse Lyrik
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781137344786 |
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1137344784 |
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