Since January this column has featured poets from the British Renaissance to Colonial America. This month I look at the stark differences between the poetry of the Shakespearean 1600s and the ...
Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herd with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire; ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
A new exhibition opening this week at the Yale Center for British Art looks at a series of portrait busts of 18th-century poet Alexander Pope by French sculptor Louis-François Roubiliac. “Fame and ...
Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Bathurst" (1733) concludes with the exemplary tale of Sir Balaam. The knight's crooked career ends in disgrace: 'The house impeach him; Coningsby harangues.' An ...
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