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Milton, Pope and the missionary position: yet once more. (John Milton and Alexander Pope)
From: ANQ
Date: 19940701
Author:Cook, Patrick J.
Alexander Pope was not parodying John Milton but furthering his portrayal of sexual roles in the way he depicts Belinda and the Baron in 'Rape of the Lock.' Wolfgang E.H. Rudat's interpretation of Canto V of Pope's poem as a reversal of Milton's lines from Book IV of 'Paradise Lost' is not supported by a careful reading of Milton. Milton is not advocating traditional female submissiveness during sex. His Eve combines compliance and assertiveness and Milton's ideal is the meeting of equals.
As Wolfgang E. H. Rudat has uncovered in the pages of this journal, Pope's Belinda effects a ...
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