ENGL 200 Lecture Notes - Living Lightning, Consecration, Evry
18 May 2012
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Poem by alexander pope who was a famous scholar, translator, poet. Poem is written in couplets, the predominant form in the 18th century. It is a satire, and it brings together the two favorite forms in the 18th century, the epic and the satire, doing both at the same time. The back story: a party takes place in the late fall of 1711, and what happens that a 23 year old nobleman cuts a lock of hair from arabella fermor. She is introduced in the delitcatee in the poem. This incident threatens to escalate into some serious ill will. One of pope s friend, john caryll, asks him to write a poem to laugh these families back to together again. In the first version, it is 2 cantos long (200 lines long) Then, pope begins to translate homer s iliad, an epic poem.
