...he announces, at once apologizing for his earlier career and committing himself to a new direction, That not in Fancy's Maze he wander'd long, But stoop'd to Truth, and moraliz'd his song:... (Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, 336,340-41) "Fancy's Maze": we have heard this language before. This is...

...the Zu TEXT 40: 23 stoops to truth] Vgl. Alexander Pope, "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" (1735), 340-341: "That not in Fancy's maze he wander'd long, / But stoop'd to truth, and moraliz'd his song." 45/46 So . . . years] Zitat aus Shakespeares Komodie The Winter's Tale, V, iii, 30-31. complete transaction...

...ways; That Flatt'ry, ev'n to Kings, he held a shame, And through a Lye in Verse or Prose the same: that not in Fancy's Maze he wander'd long, But stoop'd to Truth and moraliz'd his song. (Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, lines 125-8, 334-41) Pope's redefinition of the poet as a unique and incorruptible...

...sphere ceases to he a retreat into domestic values and hecomes ahstracted into a defence of virtue: That not in Fancy's Maze he wander'd long, But stoop'd to Truth, and moraliz'd his song. That not for Fame, hut Virtue's hetter end. He stood the turious Foe, the timid Friend . . . (Works,...

...Pastoral, p. 62). Pope liked to present his poetic development as a matter of embracing responsibility: That not in Fancy's Maze he wander'd long. But stoop'd to Truth, and moraliz'd his song:6s Such in part it was. But The Dunciad, as Emrys Jones appreciated, also has a juvenile side:...

...moralize my song," a phrase which reminds us that Pope's boast of himself in Epistle to Arbuthnot, "That not in Fancy's Maze he wander'd long, But stoop'd to Truth, and moraliz'd his song" (340-1), is also a renewed commitment to Spenser.7 Pope, like his Elizabethan predecessor, was fascinated...