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