Alexander Pope

  • Alexander Pope
    By Paul Baines

    ... Raman (1993): A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory, third edition (New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf) Shankman, Steven (1983): Pope's “Iliad”: Homerin the Age of Passion (Princeton: Princeton University Press) Sherburn, ...

  • Alexander Pope
    By Leslie Stephen

    By Wordsworth's time the Pope style was thus ell'ete 3 what ought to be the dress of thought had become the rigid armour into which thought was forcibly compressed, and a revolt was inevitable. We may agree, too, that his peculiar style ...

  • Alexander Pope
    By Paul Baines

    Series Editors RICHARD BRADFORD AND JAN JEDRZEJEWSKI Also available in this series: The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel ... Pattie The Complete Critical Guide to Geoffrey Chaucer GillianRudd The Complete Critical Guide to John Milton ...

  • Alexander Pope
    By G.S. Fraser

    But Pound , of course , unlike Pope , feels ' modern ' : But first Elpenor came , our friend Elpenor , Unburied , cast on the wide earth , Limbs that we left in the house of Circe , Unwept , unwrapped in sepulchre , since toils urged ...

  • Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense
    By David B. Morris

    Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense

  • Alexander Pope: a Biography
    By Leslie Stephen

    Pope was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer.

  • Alexander Pope
    By Alexander Pope

    Alexander Pope has often been termed the first truly professional poet in English. He had an acute awareness of traditions he had inherited and a clear vision of where he...

  • Alexander Pope: Poems
    By John Fuller, Alexander Pope

    In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their...

  • Alexander Pope: A Life
    By Maynard Mack

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

  • Alexander Pope
    By Laura Brown

    This book asks us to rethink such a way of understanding Pope. Refusing to accept Pope's version of reality, Laura Brown reads his poems not for what they claim to say, but for what they rationalize away or fail to recognize.

  • Alexander Pope
    By George Sutherland Fraser

    Alexander Pope

  • Alexander Pope: The Critical Heritage
    By John Barnard

    95 SAMUEL RICHARDSON , January 1744 A final tribute 96 Anonymous, An Elegy on Mr. Pope, June 1744 PART II LATER CRITICISM 1745–82 97 WILLIAM AYRE , from Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq., 1745 98 THOMAS GRAY ...

  • Alexander Pope: The Poetry of Allusion
    By Reuben Arthur Brower

    One has to look back to Mark Van Doren's momentous John Dryden for a study of a major English poet which is as ambitious in intention and as convincing in...

  • Alexander Pope
    By Edith Sitwell

    Alexander Pope

  • Alexander Pope: The Evolution of a Poet
    By Netta Murray Goldsmith

    ... Queen' (160ff.). Until almost the end of Queen Anne's reign there was less unrest in England than there had been under William who, as well as dragging his adopted country into expensive wars, was personally unpopular. Pope makes the ...

  • Alexander Pope: The Poet and the Landscape
    By Mavis Batey

    This work provides a look at Pope's relationship with the leading garden makers of his time. Forever planning and plotting for his own grotto and for his modest five acres...