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I have been drawing out a poetics from The Rape of the Lock, as from Le Lutrin, but Pope himself had already discussed these matters, of course, in An Essay on Criticism. Part of the interest of that work is that, while it too is concerned with the power of words over things, it envisages, at one moment at least, a perfect relation between them.
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Edwards, M. (1988). ‘True Expression’. In: Poetry and Possibility. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09443-1_4
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