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Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady

  • William Hutchings (author)
Chapter of: ‘Wit’s Wild Dancing Light’: Reading the Poems of Alexander Pope(pp. 93–98)
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Title Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
ContributorWilliam Hutchings (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0372.09
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0372/chapters/10.11647/obp.0372.09
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightWilliam Hutchings
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2023-12-19
Long abstract

Chapter 8 reads the Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady as a discreet but emotionally charged poem. Using the language of pastoral and incorporating the tradition of classical elegy, it represents an often overlooked, if relatively small, area of Pope’s oeuvre.

Page rangepp. 93–98
Print length6 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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William Hutchings

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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.

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