Romanticism is a literary attitude and an artistic evolution that surfaced towards the end of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century with the publication of the Preface to The Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1790. Romanticism as a movement is in odds to the earlier decorative literary rules of…
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Analysis of Alexander Pope’s views on the 18th century society
The Rape of the Lock is an early 18th century based mock-epic poem about the actual disagreement between two aristocratic families. It is the exaggerated and mocked story of the stealing of Belinda’s lock of hair and Lord Petre’s desire to attain the lock. The author- Alexander Pope uses his imagination, wit, and gentle satire…
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John Dryden’s All for Love is a heroic tragedy written in the blank verse where Dryden tries to reinvigorate the ancient Roman drama by writing under the principles that he sees as fit for a literary work. The work, which is a masterpiece, can also be analyzed under the guideline of Pope and Johnson. The…
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