sep 9, 1712 - "Windsor Forest"
by Alexander Pope
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- Howard Erskine-Hill, in his Warton lecture of 1994, surveyed this large body of
poetry, and argued compellingly that Pope’s poem on this occasion,
Windsor-Forest, demurred from the mood of national triumphalism on
the grounds that the peace treaty included improved slave trading rights
for British companies. No other poets seem to have allowed the ‘Asiento
Clause’ in the Treaty to dampen their enthusiasm for the arrival of a
peaceful, and soon-to-be universal British Empire
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