Essays Tagged: "Eloisa to Abelard"

Analysis Pope's Eloisa to Abelard

elegiac verses “Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady” and the romantic psychodrama, Eloisa to Abelard. The “Elegy” is, perhaps, only partially successful; its chief interest ... the poet’s vacillation between a Christian and a Stoic understanding of the lady’s death. Eloisa to Abelard is another matter altogether. G. Wilson Knight claims that it “is certainly P ...

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Subjects: Literature Research Papers