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Symbolic Design Of Windsor Forest - Iconography, Pageant, and Prophecy in Pope's Early Work (Hardcover)
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Symbolic Design Of Windsor Forest - Iconography, Pageant, and Prophecy in Pope's Early Work (Hardcover)
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This is the first detailed exploration of one of the earliest major
poems by Alexander Pope, Windsor-Forest (1713). The book reveals
how Pope used the artistic conventions of the Stuart court, such as
masque, architecture, allegorical painting, and heraldry to create
the last great Renaissance poem in English. A coherent symbolic
design is constructed around the themes of the river and the
forest. Pope organizes the structure and style of the poem to
create a prophetic version of nationhood, drawing on such sources
as the plays of Ben Jonson, the Whitehall paintings of Rubens, the
architecture of Inigo Jones, the panegyric work of Dryden, and the
topographical poetry of Drayton. The political dimensions of the
poem are considered in relation to the foundation of the South Sea
Company in 1711, with its foreshadowing of imperial issues to come.
The book will spark further interest in a poem that has been
gaining increasing attention recently from writers such as E. P.
Thompson and Laura Brown. It shows the centrality of Windsor-Forest
in Pope's own career, and the centrality of Pope in the debates of
his time. Pat Rogers is DeBartolo Professor in the Liberal Arts at
the University of South Florida.
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