Author: Rufus Andersm Blanshard
Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 106

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Author: Rufus A. Blanshard
Publisher:
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Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher:
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Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Author: Howard Erskine-Hill
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1835532446
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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This critical biography places Pope’s life and poetry in the context of the political state of Britain following the Revolution of 1688. It gives close readings of Pope’s major poems, including the less commonly discussed translations of Homer. Frequent resort is made to Pope’s letters, including new items. A final chapter discusses Pope’s literary reputation in the later eighteenth-century.

Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher: Alma Books
ISBN: 0714548308
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Written in 1727, The Art of Sinking in Poetry was one of Alexander Pope's contributions to the literary output of the legendary Scriblerus club - a circle of writers dedicated to mocking what they perceived as a culture of mediocrity and false learning prevalent in the arts and sciences of their day. Taking the form of an ironic guide to writing bad verse, Pope's tongue-in-cheek essay is wickedly funny in its lampooning of various pompous poetasters, as well as being essential reading for any budding writer wishing to avoid sinking to the unintentionally ridiculous, and instead reach for the sublime.

Author: Maynard Mack
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393305296
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1000

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The noted Yale scholar and critic offers a complete biography of the great eighteenth-century poet, elucidating his skills as a doubly disadvantaged individual and his triumphs as a poet and spokesman for his times

Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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Author: Pat Rogers
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789144191
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 471

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“Drawing on deep familiarity with the period and its personalities, Rogers has given us a witty and richly detailed account of the ongoing war between the greatest poet of the eighteenth century and its most scandalous publisher.”—Leo Damrosch, author of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age “What sets Rogers’s history apart is his ability to combine fastidious research with lucid, unpretentious prose. History buffs and literary-minded readers alike are in for a punchy, drama-filled treat.”—Publishers Weekly The quarrel between the poet Alexander Pope and the publisher Edmund Curll has long been a notorious episode in the history of the book, when two remarkable figures with a gift for comedy and an immoderate dislike of each other clashed publicly and without restraint. However, it has never, until now, been chronicled in full. Ripe with the sights and smells of Hanoverian London, The Poet and Publisher details their vitriolic exchanges, drawing on previously unearthed pamphlets, newspaper articles, and advertisements, court and government records, and personal letters. The story of their battles in and out of print includes a poisoning, the pillory, numerous instances of fraud, and a landmark case in the history of copyright. The book is a forensic account of events both momentous and farcical, and it is indecently entertaining.

Author: Joseph Hone
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198842317
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Explores Alexander Pope's early career as a literary author, and provides a transformative account of the eighteenth century poet.

Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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