Third class on Pope: How pure poetry becomes topical

Published: Oct. 27, 2010, 3 a.m.

b"Pope's topicality, and its origins as recounted in the Horatian Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot.\\xa0 How poets become enmeshed in the world.\\xa0 Pope writing within the form of that enmeshment.\\xa0 His travails with Theobald.\\xa0 Excursus on Bentley and Theobald.\\xa0 Return to the Rape of the Lock and the brilliance of the reported speech."