Pope's the sixth Eptistle of the first book of Horace imitated.(Critical Essay)

From: The Explicator | Date: March 22, 2003| Author: Kisor, Yvette | Copyright information

Pope begins his Epistle I.vi. (1738) by quoting Thomas Creech's translation of Horace. He does so, as his parenthetical comment (lines 3-4) makes clear, because plain truth ought to be plainly stated: a thought so clearly expressed by Horace needs no "reinterpreting," only translating. Yet throughout his version, Pope uses a variety of techniques to "tweak" Horace's poem, arriving at an interpretation that is both more emphatic and more deeply ironic than the Horatian original. By ...

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