The Symbolic Design of Windsor-Forest: Iconography, Pageant, and Prophecy in Pope's Early WorkUniversity of Delaware Press, 2004 - 270 Seiten This is the first detailed exploration of one of the earliest major poems by Alexander Pope, Windsor-Forest (1713). The book reveals how Pope used the artistic conventions of the Stuart court, such as masque, architecture, allegorical painting, and heraldry to create the last great Renaissance poem in English. A coherent symbolic design is constructed around the themes of the river and the forest. Pope organizes the structure and style of the poem to create a prophetic version of nationhood, drawing on such sources as the plays of Ben Jonson, the Whitehall paintings of Rubens, the architecture of Inigo Jones, the panegyric work of Dryden, and the topographical poetry of Drayton. The political dimensions of the poem are considered in relation to the foundation of the South Sea Company in 1711, with its foreshadowing of imperial issues to come. The book will spark further interest in a poem that has been gaining increasing attention recently from writers such as E. P. Thompson and Laura Brown. It shows the centrality of Windsor-Forest in Pope's own career, and the centrality of Pope in the debates of his time. Pat Rogers is DeBartolo Professor in the Liberal Arts at the University of |
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THE LONG TRIUMPHS OF EDWARD III | 39 |
TRIUMPHAL ARCHES | 41 |
THE LATER MASQUE | 46 |
PAINTED CROSSES | 49 |
The Poem as Allegory Iconography and Emblems | 56 |
PAST AND PRESENT | 139 |
FOREST LAWS | 144 |
VIGOROUS SWAINS | 151 |
THE WINDSOR BLACKS | 154 |
THE WOODLANDERS | 160 |
FAMILY AFFAIRS | 165 |
LOCAL BEARINGS | 171 |
DRAYTONS ARDEN | 175 |
COINS AND POETRY | 62 |
BRITANNIAS GODDESS | 66 |
RUBENS | 69 |
POUSSIN | 76 |
POPE AS PAINTER | 78 |
LANDSCAPE GARDENING | 83 |
The Poem as Blazon Heraldry and Natural Description | 87 |
PAINTING THE FOREST GREEN | 88 |
HERALDIC BEARINGS | 90 |
AN ARMORIAL PLOT | 99 |
STUART ACHIEVEMENTS | 107 |
The Poem of the River Father of the British Floods | 113 |
THE RENAISSANCE BACKGROUND | 118 |
DE CONNUBIO | 124 |
WINDSORS FAMED ABODES | 127 |
BRITISH STREAMS | 132 |
The Poem of the Forest Green Retreats | 138 |
The Poem as Prophecy Empire Providence and Panegyric | 183 |
CLAUDIAN AND PANEGYRIC | 184 |
THE PEDIGREE OF PRAISE | 190 |
BLESSED PLOTS | 193 |
DRYDEN AS PANEGYRIST | 194 |
THE SWELLING TIDE | 197 |
TRADE AND EMPIRE | 203 |
FAMOUS PREDICTIONS | 210 |
The Poem of Time and Space Scenes of Opening Fate | 217 |
COMPLEX WORDS | 219 |
DISTANT ENDS | 223 |
HARMONIOUS CONFUSIONS | 227 |
Afterword | 232 |
Notes | 235 |
Bibliography | 257 |
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