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New for 2023: Victorian Poetry Scroll back for previous courses on Shakespeare, Eighteenth Century Poetry, Close Reading, Various film genres, Film and Philosophy, the Western Canon, Early Romantics, 17th Century Poetry, etc.
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Wednesday Oct 20, 2010
Wednesday Oct 20, 2010
An introductory class on Pope, in particular the Essay on Criticism. Pope's poetic mode compared to Dryden's. Some account of Pope's effects in the essay. The difference between judgment and creation; and the similarities between them: how Virgil was a great critic of Homer and had to be in order to use Homer as the model for the Aeneid. Pope's own critical theories and his holism.
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