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"Envy'd Wit" in An Essay on Criticism
- SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 52, Number 3, Summer 2012
- pp. 561-583
- 10.1353/sel.2012.0031
- Article
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Abstract
The lines about Envy in the second part of Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism form one of the least discussed sections of the poem. In this paper I consider the interaction of allusion and wit in the passage and argue that the lines may be regarded as an early but crucial instance of self-fashioning in Pope's oeuvre.
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