Essays Tagged: "An Essay on Criticism"

Mock-heroic features of Pope's "The Rape of the Lock"

the Lock'.Mock-epic, also known as mock-heroic poetry is a juxtaposition of trivial subject matter and grandeur epic style. From the fundamental point of view, mock-epic is nothing but the most popul ... he most popular neo-classical burlesque used as a double-edged satirical weapon. Batrachomyomachia, an anonymous parody, attributed to Homer, is most probably the earliest example of mock-epic genre. ...

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Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry