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The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise: Appendix: Pope's...

Abelard and HeloiseHistorical LettersMedieval Christianity

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[This 'Epistle' was published by Alexander Pope in 1717, and is given here because through it alone has the tragedy of the unfortunate lovers been so far known to the mass of the English public. The 'Epistle' is marvellously exact in its rendering of many of the phrases of Heloise, and is an apt example of how rhyming couplets can turn into trite commonplaces the most marvellous expressions of human passion that literature contains.] IN these deep solitudes and awful cells, Where…

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