Copyright
William HutchingsPublished On
2023-12-19Page Range
pp. 85–92Language
- English
Print Length
8 pages
7. Eloisa to Abelard
- William Hutchings (author)
Chapter of: ‘Wit’s Wild Dancing Light’: Reading the Poems of Alexander Pope(pp. 85–92)
Chapter 7. Eloisa to Abelard is a striking and powerful development of the Ovidian verse epistle, resulting in a poem of intense and unremitting eroticism. The voice of Eloisa is flexible in language but firm in commitment to a love which grows stronger as its circumstances tragically deny its resolution. Love conquers all in its all-consuming fires.
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.