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Author Atkins, G. Douglas (George Douglas), 1943-

Title Alexander Pope's catholic vision : 'Slave to no sect' / G. Douglas Atkins
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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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
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Subject Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 -- Religion
SUBJECT Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 fast
Pope, Alexander 1688-1744 gnd
Subject Religious poetry, English -- History and criticism -- 18th century
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church -- United Kingdom, Great Britain.
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature.
Religion
Religious poetry, English
Religiƶse Lyrik
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137344786
1137344784