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Alexander Pope's Opus Magnum As Palladian Monument, Cassandra C. Pauley
Alexander Pope's Opus Magnum As Palladian Monument, Cassandra C. Pauley
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The overarching goal of this study is to suggest that Alexander Pope did not abandon his project for a "system of ethics in the Horatian way," but rather that in his final days he did find a way to unite the parts at hand into a viable whole. Constructing such an argument, however, requires a similar building up from the parts, and so the core focus becomes a study on the way the image of an arch can serve as a metaphor for Pope's reconciliation scheme in his Moral Essays as he "steers betwixt" seeming opposites.
To justify this approach, …