Author: Alexander PopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ... To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author
Author: Alexander PopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Alexander Pope in the Making
Author: Joseph HonePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198842317
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Explores Alexander Pope's early career as a literary author, and provides a transformative account of the eighteenth century poet.
The works of Alexander Pope
Author: Alexander PopeThe Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings
Author: Alexander PopePublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141946296
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights into human nature have entered the language, and whose verse still astonishes with its energy and inventiveness centuries after his death. This new selection of Pope's work follows the path of his poetic genius over his lifetime. It contains early poems including the masterly mock-epic 'The Rape of the Lock', which satirizes a notorious society scandal through glorious heroic couplets, the brilliantly aphoristic 'An Essay on Criticism' and excerpts from his translation of the Iliad. Later poems represented include Pope's ironic adaptations of Horace's Epistles, Satires and Odes, and the remarkable 'Dunciad', a stinging attack on his literary rivals and the mediocrity of Grub Street hacks. Here too are selected prose works and letters from Pope to his contemporaries such as John Gay and Jonathan Swift.
Art of Sinking in Poetry
Author: Alexander PopePublisher: Alma Books
ISBN: 0714548308
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
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.
The Works of Alexander Pope: Poetry
Author: Alexander PopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Works of Alexander Pope
Author: Alexander PopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Major Works
Author: Alexander PopePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019920361X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Pope's poetry and prose - the major poems in their entirety, together with translations, criticism, letters and other prose - to give the essence of his work and thinking. Pope has often been termed the first truly professional poet in English, whose dealings with the book trade helped to produce the literary market-place of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this representative selection of Pope's most important work, the texts are presented in chronological sequence so that the Moral Essays and Imitations of Horace are restored to their original position in his career. The Dunciad, The Rape of the Lock, and Peri Bathous are presented in full, together with a characteristic sample of Pope's prose, including satires, pamphlets, and periodical writing. The influential preface to his edition of Shakespeare is here, as well as passages from his conversations with Joseph Spence and examples of his wide-ranging correspondence. This fine edition features a comprehensive biographical index, as well as an introduction and invaluable notes.
Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope
Author: Alexander PopePublisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
The Alexander Pope Encyclopedia
Author: Pat RogersPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031306153X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was the most important English poet of the 18th century, as well as an essayist, satirist, and critic. Many of his sayings are still quoted today. His Essay on Criticism shaped the aesthetic views of English Neoclassicism, while his Essay on Man reflected the moral views of the Enlightenment. He participated fully in the critical debates of his time and was one of the few poets who supported himself through his writing. This reference conveniently summarizes his life and works. Included are several-hundred alphabetically arranged entries on Pope's works, subjects that interested him, historical events that impacted Pope's life and work, cultural terms and categories, Pope's family members and acquaintances, major scholars and critics, and various other topics related to his writings. The entries reflect current scholarship and cite works for further reading. The encyclopedia also provides a chronology and concludes with a selected, general bibliography. Because of Pope's central importance to the Enlightenment, this book is also a useful companion to 18th-century literary and intellectual culture.