The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings

The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings
Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 566
Release: 2011-06-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0141946296


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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.


The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings
Language: en
Pages: 566
Authors: Alexander Pope
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-30 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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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 a
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Alexander Pope in the Making
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: Joseph Hone
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-28 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Explores Alexander Pope's early career as a literary author, and provides a transformative account of the eighteenth century poet.
Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope
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Pages: 518
Authors: Alexander Pope
Categories: Education
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Alexander Pope
Language: en
Pages: 1000
Authors: Maynard Mack
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-04-01 - Publisher: W. W. Norton

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The noted Yale scholar and critic offers a complete biography of the great eighteenth-century poet, elucidating his skills as a doubly disadvantaged individual