Research Catalog

The symbolic design of Windsor-Forest : iconography, pageant, and prophecy in Pope's early work / Pat Rogers.

Title: The symbolic design of Windsor-Forest : iconography, pageant, and prophecy in Pope's early work / Pat Rogers.
Author: Rogers, Pat, 1938-
Publication: Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2004], ©2004.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

2 Items

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	PR3630 .W57 2004	Off-site
Not available - Please for assistance.	Text	Use in library		Off-site

Details

Description

270 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This book offers a full reading of Windsor-Forest (1713), which can be regarded as the last great Renaissance poem in English. Along with An Essay on Criticism, it ranks second in importance only to The Rape of the Lock among the earlier works of Alexander Pope. It is the culmination of Pope's early pastoral phase and at the same time the most nakedly political of his major poems until the bitter satires of his later years. The poem has figured centrally in recent scholarly debate, e.g., in E. P. Thompson's historical classic Whigs and Hunters, as well as in important literary studies by Howard Weinbrot and Laura Brown, where hot topics such as national identity and the imperial drive have been contested." "This book aims to give a coherent account of Windsor-Forest, as the poem draws on a range of artistic modes inherited from classical and Renaissance sources, including the court masque, history painting, heraldic design, architecture, and more. All can be shown to serve a single allegorical purpose, reflected in the language and structure of the poem. However, the argument also confronts political readings of the poem, as it embraces the elements of prophecy and astrology. The book establishes a direct line back to major writers such as Ben Jonson and John Dryden."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-264) and index.

Contents

1. The poem as pageant : court masque and spectacle -- 2. The poem as allegory : iconography and emblems -- 3. The poem as blazon : heraldry and natural description -- 4. The poem of the river : "father of the British floods" -- 5. The poem of the forest : "green retreats" -- 6. The poem as prophecy : empire, providence, and panegyric -- 7. The poem of time and space : "scenes of opening fate"

ISBN

087413837X (alk. paper)

LCCN

2003018990

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries