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Sent 1: Modern criticism of Pope focuses on the man, his circumstances and motivations, prompted by theoretical perspectives such as Marxism, feminism and other forms of post-structuralism.
Sent 2: Brean Hammond focuses on Pope's singular achievement in making an independent living solely from his writing.
Sent 3: Laura Brown (1985) adopts a Marxist approach and accuses Pope of being an apologist for the oppressive upper classes.
Sent 4: Hammond (1986) has studied Pope's work from the perspectives of cultural materialism and new historicism.
Sent 5: Along Hammond's lines, Raymond Williams explains art as a set of practices influenced by broad cultural factors rather than simply the vague ideas of genius alone.
Sent 6: Hayden Carruth, wrote that it was "Pope's rationalism and pandeism with which he wrote the greatest mock-epic in English literature."
Sent 7: In Politics and Poetics of Transgression (1985) Peter Stallybrass and Allon White charge that Pope drew upon the low culture which he despised in order to produce his own "high art".
Sent 8: They assert Pope was implicated in the very material he was attempting to exclude, not dissimilar to observations made in Pope's time.
Sent 9: Colin Nicholson reads the poetry in terms of the Financial Revolution, showing how Pope responded to the corruption of the traditional 'landed interest' by the newly dominant 'moneyed interest'.
Sent 10: Feminists have also criticised Pope's works.
Sent 11: Ellen Pollak's The Poetics of Sexual Myth (1985) argues that Pope followed an anti-feminist tradition, that regarded women as inferior to men both intellectually and physically.
Sent 12: Carolyn Williams contends that a crisis in the male role during the 18th century in Britain impacted Pope and his writing.