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    Windsor Forest
    Windsor Forest
    Windsor Forest
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    Windsor Forest

    By Alexander Pope

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    Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet.  Pope became famous quickly for his use of the heroic couplet and aside from Shakespeare he is the most frequently quoted writer in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.  Pope's most famous works are An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, and The Dunciad.This edition of Windsor Forest includes a table of contents.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781537804606
    Windsor Forest
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    Alexander Pope

    Alexander Pope kommt 1688 in London zur Welt. Als Katholiken beargwöhnt, zieht sich die Familie bald nach der Geburt Alexanders aufs Land zurück, was die Ausbildung des Jungen schwierig gestaltet. Autodidaktisch erlernt er Latein und Griechisch, aber auch Französisch und Italienisch und beginnt früh, Verse zu schreiben. Die Pastorals erscheinen 1709 und begründen seinen Ruhm als einer der bedeutendsten englischen Dichter des beginnenden 18. Jahrhunderts. Äußerlich kleinwüchsig und an vielerlei Gebrechen leidend, erhalten viele seiner geschliffenen Verse den Stellenwert von Sprichwörtern.Pope ist der erste englische Dichter, der schon zu Lebzeiten bleibenden Ruhm im gesamten europäischen Ausland erfährt. Er führt das Versepos in England zur Blüte und macht es zur beherrschenden poetischen Form seines Jahrhunderts. Bis 1725 widmet sich Pope der Übersetzung der Ilias und der Odyssee, ein Projekt, das so lukrativ für ihn wird, daß es ihn fortan finanziell unabhängig macht. 1733 entsteht dann das philosophische Lehrgedicht Vom Menschen, in dem Pope bezweifelt, das das Wesen des Menschen aus spekulativer Vernunft heraus bestimmt werden kann. Die welthaften Bedingungen und Beziehungen des menschlichen Lebens seien vielmehr Voraussetzung für die philosophische Erkenntnis. Menschliches Glück könne nur in einer Gesellschaft erlangt werden, die größtmögliche Individualität erlaube.Pope stirbt 1744 in Twickenham bei London.

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      Windsor Forest - Alexander Pope

      WINDSOR FOREST

      ..................

      Alexander Pope

      KYPROS PRESS

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      Copyright © 2016 by Alexander Pope

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Windsor Forest

      WINDSOR FOREST

      ..................

      To the Right Honourable George Lord Lansdowne.

      ‘Non injussa cano: te nostrae, Vare, myricae,

      Te nemus omne canet; nee Phoebo gratior ulla est,

      Quam sibi quae Vari praescripsit pagina nomen.’

      VIRG.

      Thy forests, Windsor! and thy green retreats,

      At once the Monarch’s and the Muse’s seats,

      Invite my lays. Be present, sylvan Maids!

      Unlock your springs, and open all your shades.

      Granville commands; your aid, O Muses, bring!

      What Muse for Granville can refuse to sing?

      The groves of Eden, vanish’d now so long,

      Live in description, and look green in song:

      These, were my breast inspired with equal flame,

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