@inbook{4e34d5bdf30848389aaa1c1652c4152f,
title = "Beatus Ille: Pope and the Mythos of Retirement",
abstract = "“Beatus Ille: Pope and the Mythos of Retirement” examines and illustrates the many ways in which images of retirement pervade the poetry of Pope. The essay considers the complex, often fanciful, play between the myth of a contented retreat from the busy world derived from Horace and from Pope{\textquoteright}s poetical predecessors such as Cowley and Dryden, and the actual sources of the “happy” state that Pope achieved in his middle and later years. Pope{\textquoteright}s “Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot,” his “Windsor Forest” and even “The Epistle to a Lady” conjure notions of society placed at a distance, or left behind in old age. In practice, while Pope cultivated the idea of retirement pleasures with great elegance and wit, he remained driven by a creative restlessness that ceased only with death.",
author = "Smallwood, {Philip J}",
year = "2023",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781032064536",
volume = "1",
series = "Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "1",
pages = "115--132",
editor = "A.D. Cousins and Daniel Derrin",
booktitle = "Pope's Mythologies",
address = "United Kingdom",
edition = "1",
}