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CR Episode 253: Pope’s Messiah
Published 1 year, 9 months ago
Description
Released on 6 January 2024:
The panel reads Alexander Pope’s “Messiah,” based upon Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue and the biblical Book of Isaiah, with a discussion of its formal qualities, its Late Augustan/pre-Romantic historical context, and its fusion of Classical and Hebraic imagery.