Copyright
William HutchingsPublished On
2023-12-19Page Range
pp. 245–256Language
- English
Print Length
12 pages
24. The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated. To Lord Bolingbroke
- William Hutchings (author)
Chapter of: ‘Wit’s Wild Dancing Light’: Reading the Poems of Alexander Pope(pp. 245–256)
Chapter 24. The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated. To Lord Bolingbroke is addressed to the man whose personality and intellect were almost certainly the strongest, and most long-lasting, of any in Pope’s life and career. The poem is in three broad but clear sections: a farewell to poetry and a turn to philosophy, an attack on the values and practices of contemporary society, and a quizzical and self-depreciatory look at human inconsistency. The chapter looks in detail at extracts from all three sections.
Contributors
William Hutchings
(author)Honorary Research Fellow at University of Manchester
William Hutchings was formerly Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Director of the Centre for Excellence in Enquiry-Based Learning at the University of Manchester, UK and he is presently Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at that university. He now lectures regularly to public groups locally and nationally. He has a wealth of teaching experience on English Literature courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and is the editor of Andrew Marvell: Selected Poems, the author of The Poetry of William Cowper, and Literary Criticism: A Practical Guide for Students.