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Overview. “Eloisa to Abelard” is a poem published in 1717 by Alexander Pope. The poem discusses the ill-fated love affair of a real-life couple from 12th-century France: Heloïse d’Argenteuil, a gifted 18-year-old student, and Peter Abelard, a renowned French scholar, philosopher, and poet of the Medieval era who was 20 years older than ...
Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope - In these deep solitudes and awful cells, Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells, And ever-musing melancholy reig Famous Poets and Poems: Home | Poets | Poem of the Month | Poet of the Month | Top 50 Poems | Famous Quotes | Famous Love Poems
4 days ago · Yet, yet I love!--From Abelard it came, D. And Eloisa yet must kiss the name. Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, C. Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, E. Where mix'd with God's, his lov'd idea lies: E. O write it not, my hand--the name appears X.
Give all thou canst—and let me dream the rest. Ah no! instruct me other joys to prize, With other beauties charm my partial eyes, Full in my view set all the bright abode, And make my soul quit Abelard for God. Ah, think at least thy flock deserves thy care, Plants of thy hand, and children of thy pray'r.
Sep 5, 2023 · Physical vs spiritual passion. Alexander Pope’s "Eloisa to Abelard" is a poem of oppositions. The two lines that form each of the heroic couplets by which it is composed might be seen as ...
Published in 1717, “Eloisa to Abelard” is a poem by Alexander Pope (1688–1744). It is an Ovidian heroic epistle inspired by the 12th-century story of Héloïse’s illicit love for
1 Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, in the Twickenham Edition of The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems (ed. Tillotson, Geoffrey; 3d ed.; London and New Haven: Methuen and Yale University, 1962) 11. 163–70. All quotations from Eloisa to Abelard are taken from this edition and will be cited in the text by line reference.Google Scholar
