David Womersley
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263518
- eISBN:
- 9780191734021
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263518.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This lecture discusses the dividedness shown by Pope in The Dunciad and attempts to offer a new explanation of that dividedness. It seeks the reasons for that dividedness and also dwells on Pope's ...
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This lecture discusses the dividedness shown by Pope in The Dunciad and attempts to offer a new explanation of that dividedness. It seeks the reasons for that dividedness and also dwells on Pope's relationship with the man he identified as a very dull poet, Sir Richard Blackmore. The lecture also argues that Pope acknowledged a kind of precedency in Dulness, and that The Dunciad pays an implicit tribute to the priority of dull poets in general.Less
This lecture discusses the dividedness shown by Pope in The Dunciad and attempts to offer a new explanation of that dividedness. It seeks the reasons for that dividedness and also dwells on Pope's relationship with the man he identified as a very dull poet, Sir Richard Blackmore. The lecture also argues that Pope acknowledged a kind of precedency in Dulness, and that The Dunciad pays an implicit tribute to the priority of dull poets in general.
Jonathan Lamb
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198182641
- eISBN:
- 9780191673849
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198182641.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
This chapter argues that Pope's struggle to disintricate his sense of subjective vulnerability from the judgements he directs against a culpable public manifestation of particularity is thrown in ...
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This chapter argues that Pope's struggle to disintricate his sense of subjective vulnerability from the judgements he directs against a culpable public manifestation of particularity is thrown in relief by studying the parallels that extend between Pope's desire to destroy the sublime of Sir Richard Blackmore's A Paraphrase on the Book of Job and his fascination, growing into disgust, with ‘the Symptoms of an Amorous Fury’ he locates in the literary remains of Sappho. If Blackmore and Balaam strike Pope as the unhappy leftovers of Job's sublime, no less do the writings and person of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu strike him as the noisome detritus of Sappho's.Less
This chapter argues that Pope's struggle to disintricate his sense of subjective vulnerability from the judgements he directs against a culpable public manifestation of particularity is thrown in relief by studying the parallels that extend between Pope's desire to destroy the sublime of Sir Richard Blackmore's A Paraphrase on the Book of Job and his fascination, growing into disgust, with ‘the Symptoms of an Amorous Fury’ he locates in the literary remains of Sappho. If Blackmore and Balaam strike Pope as the unhappy leftovers of Job's sublime, no less do the writings and person of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu strike him as the noisome detritus of Sappho's.
