EXAM - English literature 2
The
Battle of the Books – mimics the style of excitable journalism in a debate on the relative merits of the
ancients as against the moderns in literature, fought between Bee and Spider. A Tale of a Tub – personates a
madman, satire on „corruption in religion and learning”.
Alexander Pope: 2 great mock-heroic poems, series of Horatian imitations, 4 verse epistles on moral
themes. The Rape of the Lock – based on piece of real-life gossip. The Dunciad – savage attack on hacks
and booksellers, told in the form of a celebration of the progress of an empire, that of Dullness.
Commonplace subjects are described in elevated, heroic style of classical epic. By parody and deliberate
misuse of heroic language, emphasises triviality of subject. Moral Essays, Epistle to Augustus, The
Epilogue to the Satires, Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
John Dryden: satires good-tempered, smth devastating scorn, has genius for verse rhytm, exceptional
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