The satirist in the works of Alexander Pope takes on several significant roles with concomitant responsibilities. The defense of Virtue is paramount to the satirist, above all other considerations, even death: “Welcome for thee, fair Virtue! all the past: / For thee, fair Virtue! welcome ev’n the last.”
Archive | January, 1995
Formal Verse Satire
A satiric mode developed by the Roman poets Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. The formal verse satire is generally considered the only species, or sub-genre, of the genus satire to possess any kind of identifiable or consistent form. The Roman formal verse satire consists of an outer frame or “shell” made up of the satirist, [...]
