Symbolic Design Of Windsor Forest Iconography, Pageant, and Prophecy in Pope's Early Work

by Rogers, Pat; Rosenberg, Marvin

• ISBN13: 9780874138375
• ISBN10: 087413837X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Author Biography

Pat Rogers is DeBartolo Professor in the Liberal Arts at the University of South Florida.

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(2)
Acknowledgments	11	(2)
Abbreviations	13	(2)
Introduction	15	(8)
1. The Poem as Pageant: Court Masque and Spectacle	23	(33)
Ascending Villas	23	(6)
Jonson and Carew	29	(5)
Sylvan Scenes and Pompous Turrets	34	(5)
The Long Triumphs of Edward III	39	(2)
Triumphal Arches	41	(5)
The Later Masque	46	(3)
Painted Crosses	49	(7)
2. The Poem as Allegory: Iconography and Emblems	56	(31)
The Banqueting House Ceiling	56	(6)
Coins and Poetry	62	(4)
Britannia's Goddess	66	(3)
Rubens	69	(7)
Poussin	76	(2)
Friendly Colors: Pope as Painter	78	(5)
England's Elysium: Landscape Gardening	83	(4)
3. The Poem as Blazon: Heraldry and Natural Description	87	(26)
Painting the Forest Green	88	(2)
Heraldic Bearings	90	(9)
An Armorial Plot	99	(8)
Stuart Achievements	107	(6)
4. The Poem of the River: "Father of the British Floods"	113	(25)
Classical Currents	113	(5)
The Renaissance Background	118	(6)
De Connubio	124	(3)
Windsor's Famed Abodes	127	(5)
British Streams	132	(6)
5. The Poem of the Forest: "Green Retreats"	138	(45)
The Forest: Past and Present	139	(5)
Forest Laws	144	(7)
Vigorous Swains	151	(3)
A Sequel: The Windsor Blacks	154	(6)
The Woodlanders	160	(5)
Family Affairs	165	(6)
Local Bearings	171	(4)
Drayton's Arden	175	(8)
6. The Poem as Prophecy: Empire, Providence, and Panegyric	183	(34)
Claudian and Panegyric	184	(6)
The Pedigree of Praise	190	(3)
Blessed Plots	193	(1)
Dryden as Panegyrist	194	(3)
The Swelling Tide	197	(6)
Trade and Empire	203	(7)
Famous Predictions	210	(7)
7. The Poem of Time and Space: "Scenes of Opening Fate"	217	(15)
Complex Words	219	(4)
Distant Ends	223	(4)
Harmonious Confusions	227	(5)
Afterword	232	(3)
Notes	235	(22)
Bibliography	257	(8)
Index	265