Date of Award

1-1933

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

English

First Advisor

James Mark Purcell

Second Advisor

William J. Grace

Abstract

It is the purpose of this thesis to attempt to show how Alexander Pope through his critical and literary principles put new life and vigor into English verse. He may not be a poet of the first order, as some of his critics would have us believe, but he undoubtedly was exactly the poet his age required. That age needed discipline as a restorative after the anarchy of the previous century, that Pope succeeded in bringing order out of well-nigh chaos even hie enemies concede.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts Degree Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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