"I nod in Company, I wake at Night, / Fools rush into my Head, and so I write."
— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by L. G.
Date
1733
Metaphor
"I nod in Company, I wake at Night, / Fools rush into my Head, and so I write."
Metaphor in Context
F. I'd write no more.
P. Not write? but then I think,
And for my Soul I cannot sleep a wink.
I nod in Company, I wake at Night,
Fools rush into my Head, and so I write.
(ll. 11-14, p. 614)
P. Not write? but then I think,
And for my Soul I cannot sleep a wink.
I nod in Company, I wake at Night,
Fools rush into my Head, and so I write.
(ll. 11-14, p. 614)
Categories
Provenance
After Jill Campbell's presentation at UCB: "Sporus, Sappho, and the Ape"
Citation
See Alexander Pope, The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated: In a Dialogue between Alexander Pope of Twickenham in Com. Midd. Esq; On the One Part, and his Learned Council on the Other (London: Printed by L. G. [Lawton Gilliver] and sold by A. Dodd; E. Nutt; and by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1733). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Reading The Poems of Alexander Pope, A One-Volume Edition of the Twickenham Text with Selected Annotations, ed. John Butt (New Haven: Yale UP, 1963).
Reading The Poems of Alexander Pope, A One-Volume Edition of the Twickenham Text with Selected Annotations, ed. John Butt (New Haven: Yale UP, 1963).
Date of Entry
12/03/2003
