Alexander Pope (Oxford Authors S.) - Hardcover

Pope, Alexander

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019254182X ISBN 13: 9780192541826

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1993

Synopsis

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 stood in literary history. In this representative selection of Pope's most important work Pat Rogers presents all the major poems and a characteristic sample of his prose, including satires, pamphlets, and periodical writing. Pope's criticism is represented by his preface to his edition of Shakespeare, and the personal side of his work is illustrated by short pasages from his conversations with Joseph Spence and examples of his wide-ranging correspondence. "Peri Bathous" is presented here in full, as well as the 1743 version of the "Dunciad". Some translations are also included. A feature of this volume is that the texts are presented in chronological order so that the "Moral Essays" and the "Imitations of Horace" are restored to their original position in Pope's career.

About this title

Review:

"'Faber has a poetry list worth bragging about. What other publisher could conjure up a series like this?' The Times"

Book Description:

Alexander Pope poems, selected by John Fuller, as one of six new additions to the acclaimed Poet to Poet series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 019254182X
• ISBN 13: 9780192541826
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 767