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“No one is so critical as a lover,” says Cockshut in his summary discussion of Trollope’s political novels,1 and this aptly characterizes the duality of their treatment of political themes. One satirizes to cure; loving the folly he mocks — or at the very least fascinated by it — Trollope shows how deeply he cares, how he reveres even as he slashes.
But Pope, like many ironists, loves the folly he mocks.
Reuben A. Brower
And like Pope … he belittles in order to magnify and magnifies to belittle.
A. O. J. Cockshut
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Halperin, J. (1977). Palliser Agonistes: A Backward Glance. In: Trollope and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03302-7_10
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