SOURCE: Alexander Pope, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1930, 368 p.
Sitwell was a twentieth-century English poet who, extremely cognizant of the value of sound and rhythmic structure in poetry, experimented widely in these areas in her verse. In the following excerpt from her biography of Pope, she examines several passages from Pope's works to demonstrate various aspects of the poet's technical skill.
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