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Windsor Forest

Alexander Pope

Publisher: Vintage Books

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Summary

Modeled in large part on John Denham's Cooper's Hill, Alexander Pope's Windsor Forest became the model for dozens of eighteenth-century topographic poems in which descriptions of particular places were used as vehicles for historical reflections on British history.
Available since: 05/04/2020.

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