EN 2633 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Scriblerus Club, Jonathan Swift, Mock-Heroic
16 Mar 2018
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English 2633 #17keywords and people rape: the act of taking, or seizing something by force; from latin rapere, to take or seize by force, e. g. , the rape of the sabine women, an episode in the legendary history of. Rome; here rape refers to the roman men kidnapping the sabine women. Rosicrucian doctrine of spirits: a philosophy, inaugurated in 17th-century germany, that claimed that the elements were inhabited by "most perfect creatures" - the air, by. Sylphs; water, by nymphs; earth, by gnomes; and fire, by salamanders. Pope borrows his "epic machinery" in the rape of the lock from this system and enhances it with borrowings from earlier writers (e. g. , shakespeare"s ariel, or milton"s angels). Rape of the lock, ariel is leader of the sylphs, umbriel of the gnomes. spleen: believed to be the seat of the emotions or passions. Scriblerus club: a literary association begun in 1714 of which jonathan swift, Here thou, great anna! whom three realms obey,
