| Front | Richard Lovelace - The Scrutiny Explore: 'With spoils of meaner Beauties crowned,' x4 |
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| Back | •'meaner Beauties crowned' language of conquest + brutal colonial power •response of modern post-colonial + feminist reader is negative i.e. officer going to cities and exploiting them •Resonates to modern culture of women conquest - praise for men who have seduced lots of women •'meaner Beauties' also argues they have to be less of a woman than the addressee for her to win, and he determines what makes a woman is that they are 'Beauties' |
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