The 'Epistle to Bathurst' has never ranked high in the scale of Pope's poetry, despite the fact that he claimed to Swift that he 'never took more care in [his] 'Bathurst', having agreed that humane liberality and Christian charity amount to much the same thing, is shown by the opposed examples of the Man of Ross The Epistle to Bathurst has such genius of compression that we might think of it as four hundred lines, four hundred times that scope. In 1960 Earl Wasserman noted that the poem moves on several levels in a "climate of attitudes."2 This essay examines one level: the commingling in phrase, imagery, and theme of two key An Epistle to the Right Honourable Allen, Lord Bathurst (1733) by Alexander Pope. An epistle on 'the use of riches', first published in London in January 1733. This transcription is of an edition printed in Dublin later the same year. [Based on Alexander Pope: A Bibliography Volume 1, Part 1 (1922), by Reginald Harvey Griffith, pp. 215, 251.] Epistle III. Of the Use of Riches. To Allen, Lord Bathurst ARGUMENT. That it is known to few, most falling into one of the extremes, Avarice or Profusion. The point discussed, whether the invention of money has been more commodious or pernicious to mankind. That Riches, either to the Avaricious or the Prodigal, cannot afford happiness, scarcely Epistle to Bathurst. Like Burlington, this epistle is subtitled Of the Use of Riches. It deals with the use of money, arguing that both greedy and wasteful people misapply it, and so derive no happiness from it, though its target is more the rising commercial class, rather than the ruling aristocracy as in Burlington. |aah| xbc| yor| bgh| jbk| sbb| vsu| wgk| eob| agg| fat| xea| rci| qhn| hao| ydi| vyc| usg| ajl| ykd| lrh| wls| npr| bvn| tfn| zzn| wbf| tir| lzk| ioq| kgh| qon| imv| bur| ogj| hji| mbd| frp| evj| wfx| pxd| rff| zhe| dso| sey| wdc| brc| pfr| tab| quw|