... poetry a theological/cultural discourse made possible through the figuration of the teardrop and an emphasis on the penitential weeper. Here, I examine the connections between Pope’s Recusant Catholic experience and the role of devotional weeping and lamentation in Pope’s ‘Eloisa to Abelard’ (1717...

... and caves he centers in Eloisa to Abelard (1717) and The Rape of the Lock (1714). Yet Pope's depictions of Eloisa and Belinda are not the only instances in which he draws upon the Sapphic precedent; his poems about the grotto he built for himself in his own garden are also...

...Alexander Pope was as famous for the grotto he lovingly designed at his villa as he was for his poetry. A visitor in 1748 described how one encounters “an undistinguishable Mixture of Realities and Imagery” inside the grotto. This remark captures the impression created by Eloisa to Abelard (1717...

... relics of the classical past. (Travel to Greece became more common as the century progressed.) Parliamentary speakers modelled their orations on those of Cicero and Demosthenes. Cato Iliad Homer Eloisa to Abelard This content is only available as a PDF. ...