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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... 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 with an English ...
... 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 with an English ...
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... career – the young would-be libertine and love poet,the dutiful translatorand ambitious emulator of the classics,the mature moral arbiter, and ultimately the great negator of English satire – as excluded from what he celebrates, or ...
... career – the young would-be libertine and love poet,the dutiful translatorand ambitious emulator of the classics,the mature moral arbiter, and ultimately the great negator of English satire – as excluded from what he celebrates, or ...
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... career, while animating his unique spin on Horatian retirement of the 1730s. By turning his rented Twickenham estate on the outskirts of London into a symbol of moral self-possession and freedom from material attachment, Pope transforms ...
... career, while animating his unique spin on Horatian retirement of the 1730s. By turning his rented Twickenham estate on the outskirts of London into a symbol of moral self-possession and freedom from material attachment, Pope transforms ...
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... career with a later one, each offers in the process a revised sense of the poet's relationship to a self that is experienced at once as freeing and unsettlingly elusive. The first is Pope's epigraph to his imitation of Horace's Epistle ...
... career with a later one, each offers in the process a revised sense of the poet's relationship to a self that is experienced at once as freeing and unsettlingly elusive. The first is Pope's epigraph to his imitation of Horace's Epistle ...
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... career, as we'll recall, on a dramatically oppositional note. We might end our reflections on “Pope, self, and world” by considering the epigraph to the final 1744 version of The Dunciad: Tandem Phoebus adest, morsusque inferre parantem ...
... career, as we'll recall, on a dramatically oppositional note. We might end our reflections on “Pope, self, and world” by considering the epigraph to the final 1744 version of The Dunciad: Tandem Phoebus adest, morsusque inferre parantem ...
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