Named source · 1747

Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox Quotes by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Context & Meanings

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How am I chang'd! alas! how am I grown A frightful spectre, to myself unknown!

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“How am I chang'd! alas! how am I grown A frightful spectre, to myself unknown!”

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Voice: Poetic speaker · Flavia

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Flavia experiences the change in her appearance as a shock to identity, exposing how strongly her former social value and self-image had been tied to youth and beauty.

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“Saturday. The Small-Pox” in Six Town Eclogues (1747), represented by the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive. Flavia speaks after smallpox has altered her appearance. Montagu survived smallpox herself, but this record preserves the poem’s dramatic Flavia voice and eighteenth-century beauty/satire context rather than collapsing it into autobiography or medical advice.

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