WHAT IS A HEROIC COUPLET? CLOSED COULPET? OPEN COUPLET? Definitions & Examples (esp. Alexander Pope)

WHAT ARE HEROIC COUPLETS? CLOSED COUPLETS? OPEN COUPLETS? Literary definitions & examples, including poems by Alexander Pope, John Dryden, & John Keats. Explains why heroic couplets are particularly associated with 18th century poetry in English Literature.

The lecture:
• provides a literary definition of heroic couplets
• explains why they are called ‘heroic’ couplets
• defines open couplets & closed couplets
• provides examples of closed heroic couplets & open heroic couplets

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