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Eloisa to Abelard. Abelard and his pupil Heloise by Edmund Leighton, 1882. Eloisa to Abelard is a verse epistle by Alexander Pope that was published in 1717 and based on a well-known medieval story. Itself an imitation of a Latin poetic genre, its immediate fame resulted in a large number of English imitations throughout the rest of the century ...
September 21, 2013. Set up in the backdrop of the 12th century, this masterpiece of a work by Alexander Pope, depicts the misery of Eloisa within the confines of a monastery. Her crime: illicit love with her teacher Abelard. She refuses to conform to the laws of the convent, expresses her undying love, and resentment for not being able to make ...
George Washington University. Readers familiar with Alexander Pope's Eloisa, who proclaims her anguished conflict between fleshly and spiritual impulses and contrasts her own ungov- ernable passions with Abelard's "long, dead calm of fix'd repose,"1 might be surprised at some passages in Pope's source.
May 13, 2011 · Still rebel nature holds out half my heart; Nor pray'rs nor fasts its stubborn pulse restrain, Nor tears, for ages, taught to flow in vain. Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, That well-known name awakens all my woes. Oh name for ever sad! for ever dear! Still breath'd in sighs, still usher'd with a tear.
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POPE'S ELOISA TO ABELARD John F. Sena The Ohio State University Eloisa, the medieval nun torn between "grace and nature" in Alex-ander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard, has proved to be one of the poet's most fascinating and popular female creations among religious scholars as well as literary critics. Yet there appears in Pope's masterpiece another
127 Full in my view set all the bright abode, 128 And make my soul quit Abelard for God. 129 Ah, think at least thy flock deserves thy care, 130 Plants of thy hand, and children of thy pray'r. 131 From the false world in early youth they fled, 132 By thee to mountains, wilds, and deserts led.
