ENG305H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Odysseus, Smallpox
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Woman forced to have sex with man -> gets pregnant and demand money (guy has tailor behind him, joke is that he won"t be able to pay for clothes anymore) Woman persuaded to become prostitute by brothel owner woman -> prostitute -> gets std and dies. Haywood (doesn"t know what she"s getting into -> guy -> ruined) Pope thought of self as moralist, champion of taste, wrote in heroic couplets (line of epic verse) People saw pope as annoying, made fun of him (stuffing socks for circulation and heart rate because of disease, but make fun saying he did it to look taller) Sickness makes him frail, faint, need corset all feminine aspect he satirizes in epistle to lady. Juvenilian satire (nasty, brutal, unforgiving of society and defects) vs. Pope"s imitations of horace vs mary wortley montagu. Character as a letter, mark, pieces of type that are inked and impressed, solid, visible, social (in 18ce)
