... "rape". The significance of this journey is two-fold; firstly, it mimics the epic formula, being reminiscent of the journeys of both Odysseus in Homer's "Odyssey", and Aeneas in Virgil's "Aeneid", which serves to trivialize the causes of Belinda's "anxious cares" . Secondly, the description of the actual Caves of Spleen is a highly intelligent comment on the maladies and complaints of Augustan ... ...

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... literature at its grandest. As Russo, John P., author of Alexander Pope: Tradition and Identity (1972), points out Pope begins with an epic statement that echoes the first line of The Aeneid of Virgil: Arma virorumque cano, "Of arms and the man I sing O Heavenly Muse!" "What dire offense from am'rous causes springs,/ What mighty contests rise from trivial things,/ I sing."( He ... ...

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