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The Collected Verse of John, Lord Hervey (1696-1743) (Hardcover)
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The Collected Verse of John, Lord Hervey (1696-1743) (Hardcover)
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John, Lord Hervey (1696-1743), the confidant of Queen Caroline and
antagonist of Alexander Pope, was a government minister, a
political pamphleteer and a poet. In his verse writings, collected
together for the first time in this edition, he savagely attacks
his opponents, including the King and his ministers, as well as
Pope, but he also expresses his deepest personal feelings. Hervey
was married, with eight children, and his verse conveys his
affection for his wife and family members, but his strongest
commitment was to his lover, Stephen Fox. Some of his verse is
written directly to Fox, but he also explores intense emotional
conflicts in Ovidian epistles (which include 'lesbian' poems), in a
verse tragedy Agrippina and through his collaborative poetic
relationship with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Although his verse was
sometimes mocked by contemporaries, he was a fluent and flexible
versifier and a master of poetic argument.
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