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Alexander Pope, the ideal of the hero, Ovid, and Menippean Satire.(Critical essay)
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Arguing that his age needed heroes and hero-worship, Thomas Carlyle said the eighteenth century "was a Sceptical Century; in which little word there is a whole Pandora's box of miseries.... That was not an age of Faith,--an age of Heroes!" (298). Indeed, writers in this period voiced their distrust of great men in history and of heroes in the epic in a way that was rare in earlier or later periods. Dryden, in his Dedication of Examen Poeticum (1693), says of Homer:
He stirs up the irascible appetite, as our philosophers call it; he provokes to murder, and the ...
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Fitz John Porter's long fight to clear his name.(Saturday)(The Civil War)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter stared hard at Special Order No. 337, issued by the War Department...the target was his right-hand man and favorite corps commander, Fitz John Porter. For Porter, Special Order No. 337 was the start of an...
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[2] Fitz John Porter's long fight to clear his name.(Saturday)(The Civil War)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter stared hard at Special Order No. 337, issued by the War Department...the target was his right-hand man and favorite corps commander, Fitz John Porter. For Porter, Special Order No. 337 was the start of an...
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Project Links Battlefield, Museum; Civil War-Era Effort Helped Map Future For Aviation Center
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...effort of Union Maj. Gen. Fitz-John Porter to clear his name. "It...under Union commander Gen. John Pope. The two men disliked...until 1988, when developer John T. "Til" Hazel bought...part of the team. "If Fitz-John Porter hadn't...
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Union general's long battle against a court-martial.(Saturday)(The Civil War)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...The court-martial of Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter convened in Washington in late 1862...disobeyed the orders of Maj. Gen. John Pope at the Second Battle of Bull...of review composed of Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield, Brig. Gen. Alfred...
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Jackson makes his move.(Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson)
Magazine article from: Cobblestone
; ...Virginia, Union major general John Pope saw an orange glow in the sky...general Rufus King's division on John Brawner's farm west of Groveton...vague orders to Union major general Fitz John Porter to advance west of the battlefield...
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The blame game.(United States Civil War, Union army officers' politics)
Magazine article from: Cobblestone
; ...responsible. Union major general John Pope, the obvious choice, blamed...Manassas, however, was Major General Fitz John Porter. On September 3, Pope wrote...victory on the first day had General Porter advanced as I directed him." In...
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Developing space power: Building on the airpower legacy
Magazine article from: Air & Space Power Journal
; ...clock in the afternoon, Brig Gen Fitz John Porter lifted off in his craft on a solo...this opportunity to deprive General Porter of his high ground. First came...then came the artillery. General Porter summoned every bit of his airmanship...
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Private and the Union regiment that built Arlington County forts.(TRAVEL)(THE CIVIL WAR)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...plotted the new leader's [Major General John Pope] ruin. [Maj.] Gen. [Fitz-John] Porter was unquestionably the most guilty one of the...the troops came to regard his pet, Gen. Fitz-John Porter, with distrust and suspicion...
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Killers in green coats: Hiram Berdan's sure-shooting regiment first plied its deadly trade during the 1862 Peninsula campaign. Woe to unwary rebels.
Magazine article from: Civil War Times
; ...proof of that, Brigadier General Fitz-John Porter sent a complimentary note to the...sharpshooters, assigned to General Porter's 1st Division of the III Corps...reconnaissance toward Big Bethel. General Porter's division had been ordered to...
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General John Pope: A Life for the Nation
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History
; ...and always ready to blame others, John Pope-who was decisively defeated...A Military Biography of General John Pope (Urbana, Ill., 1990) was...Pope also blamed his defeat on Fitz John Porter's failure to carry out his attack...
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