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Page 170
... ironic identification between past and present , seeing ironically how the past might rise in the present ; usually it must be done mockingly , but not always , as Dryden himself shows in Absalom and Achi- tophel . The problem arises in ...
... ironic identification between past and present , seeing ironically how the past might rise in the present ; usually it must be done mockingly , but not always , as Dryden himself shows in Absalom and Achi- tophel . The problem arises in ...
Page 201
... Irony preserves the poet from the perversity of his engagement — to the extent Pope is preserved from it . He is talking nonsense , and only the fact of its being ironically expressed estab- lishes sense in what he does . Albeit the ...
... Irony preserves the poet from the perversity of his engagement — to the extent Pope is preserved from it . He is talking nonsense , and only the fact of its being ironically expressed estab- lishes sense in what he does . Albeit the ...
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... irony , merely the mindless , undesigned , uncoordinated consequences of stupidity , of fumbling and groping in the ... ironically celebrating the triumph of nothing . Sur- prisingly , perhaps , it finds poetry in a world and lang- uage ...
... irony , merely the mindless , undesigned , uncoordinated consequences of stupidity , of fumbling and groping in the ... ironically celebrating the triumph of nothing . Sur- prisingly , perhaps , it finds poetry in a world and lang- uage ...
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