Author: Alexander PopePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: The Dunciad, in four books
Author: Alexander PopeThe Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: The dunciad, in four books
Author: Alexander PopeThe Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: The Dunciad
Author: Alexander PopeThe works of Alexander Pope
Author: Alexander Pope“The” Works of Alexander Pope, Esq
Author: Alexander PopeThe Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Dunciad
Author: Alexander PopeThe Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope
Author: Pat RogersPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827324
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Alexander Pope was the greatest poet of his age and the dominant influence on eighteenth-century British poetry. His large oeuvre, written over a thirty-year period, encompasses satires, odes and political verse and reflects the sexual, moral and cultural issues of the world around him, often in brilliant lines and phrases which have become part of our language today. This is the first overview to analyse the full range of Pope's work and to set it in its historical and cultural context. Specially commissioned essays by leading scholars explore all of Pope's major works, including the sexual politics of The Rape of the Lock, the philosophical enquiries of An Essay on Man and the Moral Essays, and the mock-heroic of The Dunciad in its various forms. This volume will be indispensable not only for students and scholars of Pope's work, but also for all those interested in the Augustan age.
The Poet and the Publisher
Author: Pat RogersPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789144191
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
“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: Alexander Pope
Author: Alexander Pope