Alexander Pope: 'The proper study of mankind'

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    London

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The course will trace the evolution of Pope’s poetic career, demonstrating both the imaginative inventiveness and the protean nature of his creative trajectory.

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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

- Demonstrate insight into how Pope’s poetic project offers both lucid social criticism and profound understanding of the poignancy and complexity of individual experience.
- Appreciate the psychological subtlety, wit and variety of Pope’s handling of the heroic couplet.
- Identify how aspects of Pope’s life and times influenced the composition of his poems.

No. You will be provided with photocopies of the poems to be studied. Bring a pen and paper.

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We shall consider a representative selection of Pope’s work, including extracts from The Rape of the Lock, Eloisa to Abelard, the Epistles, The Dunciad and An Essay on Man.

Teacher explanation; group discussion. TUTOR BIOGRAPHY: Peter Brennan is a poet, and was for many years Head of English at The Latymer School, Edmonton. He founded Visionary Company courses in 2005, and is Editor-in-Chief of Perdika Press.

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Alexander Pope: 'The proper study of mankind'

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