Windsor-Forest

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Windsor-Forest is a descriptive poem by Alexander Pope that celebrates the natural beauty and political symbolism of the English countryside around Windsor.

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instanceOf descriptive poem
poem
associatedWith Anne, Queen of Great Britain
surface form: Queen Anne

Treaty of Utrecht
author Alexander Pope
countryOfOrigin Kingdom of Great Britain
dateWritten early 18th century
dedicatedTo Lord Lansdowne
firstPublisher Bernard Lintot
genre pastoral poetry
political poetry
hasAllusionTo Glorious Revolution
Stuart monarchy
War of the Spanish Succession
hasInfluenceOn English landscape poetry
later topographical poetry
hasLiteraryCharacter Thames
surface form: Thames (personified river)

Windsor Forest
surface form: Windsor Forest (personified landscape)
influencedBy John Dryden
classical pastoral tradition
language English
literaryForm poetry
literaryMovement Augustan literature
Neoclassicism
literaryTechnique allegory
extended simile
personification
topographical description
mainSubject English countryside
Windsor Forest
natural beauty
political symbolism
meter heroic couplets
partOf Alexander Pope's early works
period 18th-century literature
placeDepicted Thames
surface form: River Thames

Windsor Castle
Windsor Great Park
publicationYear 1713
rhymeScheme rhymed couplets
setInPeriod reign of Queen Anne
theme harmony between nature and monarchy
landscape description
patriotism
peace and prosperity
royal power

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Alexander Pope notableWork Windsor-Forest