Author: Alexander PopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
Author: Alexander PopeThe 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.
The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems
Author: Alexander PopeThe Works of Alexander Pope: Poetry
Author: Alexander PopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope
Author: Alexander PopePublisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
The Works of Alexander Pope
Author: Alexander PopeArt 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 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.
Pope: Poems
Author: Alexander PopePublisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 1101908025
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets selection of the works of Alexander Pope, the greatest English poet of his age. Alexander Pope is one of the most-quoted poets in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations; he is the source of such immortal gems as "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread," "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing," and "To err is human, to forgive, divine." Celebrated for his incisive satires, most famously "The Rape of the Lock" and "The Dunciad," and for his philosophical verse, including the monumental "An Essay on Man," Pope united irony and wit with deep insight into human nature. His moral vision clothed itself in unparalleled technical excellence; Pope perfected the form of the heroic couplet and gave us a translation of Homer that is a lasting work of art in its own right. This anthology presents a pocket-sized selection of the best work of this major poet.
Author: Alexander Pope