... ". It is interesting that one of the truly outstanding satirical poems of the Augustan age has also been described as the "generic model" for the Augustan mock epic. As the term suggests, the mock epic genre parodies the classical epic; it is constructed around the same basic formula and employs ... coquettish young ladies of Augustan society, in the mock-heroic sense they mimic the role of the gods in the Greek and Roman epic traditions. In classical heroic literature the gods were intimately involved in the fate of heroes, something which Pope has carried off to great ... even more so ...

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