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This edition reprints the text of Pope's classic poem -- both the five-canto 1714 version and the facsimilie of the original 1712 version -- together with a broad selection of documents. Including correspondence, poems, broadsides, reviews, and parodies, the documents focus special attention on Pope's life and career as well as on eighteenth-century poetic traditions and innovations, social habits and assumptions, historical events, and political implications. A general introduction providing historical and cultural background, a chronology of Pope's life and times, an introduction to each thematic group of documents, headnotes, extensive annotations, a selected bibliography, and a generous collection of maps, portraits, and illustrations make this volume a unique scholarly edition of this classic work of eighteenth-century literature.
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"Brilliant... triumphant. Never has so great a poem emerged from so trivial a cause" (Peter Ackroyd)
"One of the jewels of the Augustan age" (Sunday Times)
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'[It is] a whimsical piece of work...a sort of writing very like tickling' Alexander Pope
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