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Proceedings of the British Academy Volume 181, 2010-2011 Lectures Get access

Ron Johnston (ed.)
Published online: 31 January 2013
Published in print: 01 October 2012
... with Owain Glyndwr, consisting in the main of bardic eulogies rather than prophecies, and examines them in their historical context. A lecture on Alexander Pope asks what part Shaftesbury's polite wit, Mandeville's cynicism, and Augustan sentimentalism played in the poetry of England's greatest satirist...
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‘The Reason of this Preference’: Sleeping, Flowing and Freezing in Pope’s Dunciad: 2010 Warton Lecture On English Poetry Get access

Valerie Rumbold
in Proceedings of the British Academy Volume 167, 2009 Lectures
Published: 30 June 2011
...This chapter presents the text of a lecture on Alexander Pope's literary satire Dunciad given at the British Academy's 2010 Warton Lecture on English Poetry. This text discusses the difficulty of Samuel Johnson in interpreting Pope's couplet in the Dunciad which...
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Pope’s Ethical Thinking: Passion and Irony in Dialogue: 2011 Chatterton Lecture on Poetry Get access

Christopher Tilmouth
in Proceedings of the British Academy Volume 181, 2010-2011 Lectures
Published: 01 October 2012
...This lecture examines Alexander Pope's depictions of passion and sentiment in a range of early writings, including his ‘Prologue’ to Addison's Cato, Eloisa to Abelard and An Essay on Man. It then shows how often Pope belittled his own forays into affectivity...