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 authorship of his early Works – beginning with his self-proclaimed masterpiece of versification, the Pastorals and concluding ...
... Pope began his career as a generic virtuoso, modeling the monument to poetry and his own version of classical authorship of his early Works – beginning with his self-proclaimed masterpiece of versification, the Pastorals and concluding ...
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... poet's own mother believed to be marked by excessive love of literature, Pope's poetry emerges from the intersection of creative imagination and shameful objectification, of self and world, of life and art. The greatest paradox any reader ...
... poet's own mother believed to be marked by excessive love of literature, Pope's poetry emerges from the intersection of creative imagination and shameful objectification, of self and world, of life and art. The greatest paradox any reader ...
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... Pope creates not complete transparency but rather a paradoxically elusive depiction of what James Noggle calls “a specially poetic, cleansed, fluid version of himself, apparent only in contrast with the ordinary self represented as the ...
... Pope creates not complete transparency but rather a paradoxically elusive depiction of what James Noggle calls “a specially poetic, cleansed, fluid version of himself, apparent only in contrast with the ordinary self represented as the ...
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... poetry and philosophy, An Essay on Man – which crowned Pope's career in the 1730s, arose in part out of a need to justify his satiric attacks on poor scribblers in the 1728 Dunciad. We may then realize how even the larger currents of Pope's ...
... poetry and philosophy, An Essay on Man – which crowned Pope's career in the 1730s, arose in part out of a need to justify his satiric attacks on poor scribblers in the 1728 Dunciad. We may then realize how even the larger currents of Pope's ...
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