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This is an 8 page paper that provides an overview of Alexander Pope and Frederick Douglass. The similarities and differences between the two are situated in an historical context. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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their works. This helps to underline the more universal aspects of art and literature, revealing how certain themes emerge over and over again, regardless of social context. It also reveals,
quite importantly, how it is that social context does exert an impact upon the literary and philosophical output of the individuals in question. By so doing, ones critical analysis can
also reveal a secondary dimension of art besides the universal: the contemporaneously applicable aspects of art that are a necessary product of ones own time and place. This paper will
demonstrate the veracity of this principle by exploring the works and critical content of two authors who share certain key similarities, but are nevertheless quite diverse: Alexander Pope and Frederick
Douglass. This paragraph helps the student begin to introduce the first of the authors to be analyzed. Alexander Pope was an English writer who lived and worked in the 18th
century. Catastrophically ill as a child, Pope was frequently confined to bed and therein learned the art of letters, applying it to written communications with many friends, and also the
study of Classical works of literature. As such, he became a learned critic of literature and poetry at a very young age, producing a large body of critical works that
examined what he perceived as some of the most pressing societal ills of his time. Chief among these was the inter-class strife that tore apart 18th century Europe; Pope was
a middle class individual who did not side either with the disenfranchised poor nor the aristocracy, but rather advocated a humanistic middle ground that extended directly out of the contemporary
philosophical concept of the "Great Chain of Being". This idea was expressed most plainly in his poetical work, "An Essay on Criticism", in which Pope used the poetic form not
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