The Cambridge Companion to Alexander PopePat Rogers 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. |
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... Pope. (Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets, iii, 188) Alexander Pope, eighteenth-century England's most prominent poet and his generation's most frequentlyportrayed celebrity, dominated the emergent literary marketplace as the first self ...
... Pope. (Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets, iii, 188) Alexander Pope, eighteenth-century England's most prominent poet and his generation's most frequentlyportrayed celebrity, dominated the emergent literary marketplace as the first self ...
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... Pope began his career as a generic virtuoso, modeling the monument to poetry and his own version of classical ... AlexanderPope seemed destined forthe margins:he wasCatholic at a time of ... Pope is marked out from 15 Pope, self, and world.
... Pope began his career as a generic virtuoso, modeling the monument to poetry and his own version of classical ... AlexanderPope seemed destined forthe margins:he wasCatholic at a time of ... Pope is marked out from 15 Pope, self, and world.
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Pat Rogers. of critical response, in which Pope is marked out from the order his own words construct.2 These reactions reveal Pope, who took on a variety of guises over the course of his career – the young would-be libertine and love ...
Pat Rogers. of critical response, in which Pope is marked out from the order his own words construct.2 These reactions reveal Pope, who took on a variety of guises over the course of his career – the young would-be libertine and love ...
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... Pope, explore deformity in Pope as a key to subjectivity. The paradox of art and life in Pope's work also articulates the ways in which stigma shaped him as he responded to it, turning blunders into beauties, abjection into the portrait ...
... Pope, explore deformity in Pope as a key to subjectivity. The paradox of art and life in Pope's work also articulates the ways in which stigma shaped him as he responded to it, turning blunders into beauties, abjection into the portrait ...
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Pat Rogers. rendered him alien. We might also recognize Pope in Eribon's claim that the internalization of insult creates a melancholy for “normal society” which is articulated as rejection. Pope's embrace of the “not unpleasing ...
Pat Rogers. rendered him alien. We might also recognize Pope in Eribon's claim that the internalization of insult creates a melancholy for “normal society” which is articulated as rejection. Pope's embrace of the “not unpleasing ...
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