16881744 Roman Catholic Could not vote inherit or purchase land attend a public school or university live within ten miles of London hold public office openly practice religion Religion Tuberculosis of the spine ID: 309979
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Alexander Pope
1688-1744Slide2
Roman Catholic
Could not
vote
inherit or purchase landattend a public school or universitylive within ten miles of Londonhold public officeopenly practice religion
ReligionSlide3
Tuberculosis of the spine
stunted his growth (4’6”)
rendered him hunchbacked and deformed
left him with pain, migraines, and frequent nausearequired assistance for daily activitiesRival critics called him a “hunch-backed toad”believed his ugly exterior reflected mental and moral corruption
Illness and DisabilitySlide4
Spent his adolescent years reading the greatest writers of Europe and England
Self-taught Latin and Greek
Staunch Tory
Financially successful poetMistrusted and manipulated publishing businessMember of the Scriblerus Club with Gay and Swift
Inspired and determinedSlide5
Poetry: a major cultural form
Essay on Criticism
(1711)
Rape of the Lock (1711, 1714)Windsor-Forest (1713)Iliad (1715-1720)Odyssey (1726)Shakespeare edition (1725)Dunciad
(1728, 1742)
Essay on Man
(1733)Slide6
Inspired by true events
Mock-epic
Heroic couplets
Rape of the LockSlide7
Division into books
Invocation of the muse
Use of gods to commence, oversee and influence events
Dream message from the gods Arming the heroes Sacrifice to the gods Sea voyageExhortation to the troops Single combat Epic feast Journey to the underworld General combat
Apotheosis
Elements of EpicsSlide8Slide9
Born in Dublin, Ireland
Raised around Glorious Revolution
Secretary to William Temple - 1688-1699
Church of Ireland clergymanRelationship with Esther JohnsonJonathan Swift (1667-1745)Slide10
Frequent travels to England
Ménière's
disease
First Whig then Tory – editor of The ExaminerPart of Tory governments of Queen AnnePushed for clergy rights in IrelandBritish oppression of Ireland in 18th C.After fall of Tory gov’t, given Deanery of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin
Swift’s ContextSlide11
Member of
Scriblerus
Club, friend of Pope
Author of numerous satires circulated as pamphlets:Tale of a Tub (1704)The Battle of the Books (1704)A Modest Proposal (1729) – Irish famine of 1729.Author of many poemsMuch of his work dealt with current events and/or people.
Swift’s Literary CareerSlide12
Began 1713-1720 in
Scriblerus
Club
Published in 1726, then in amended (and controversial) edition in 1735.Fear of prosecution led to some editing – restored portions in 1735.Genre: SatireTravel narrativeAnti-Whig politicsIrish questionHuman natureNovel?
Gulliver’s TravelsSlide13