Alexander Pope: A Life - Hardcover

MacK, Maynard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393022080 ISBN 13: 9780393022087

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1986

Synopsis

Winner of the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa and the Robert Kirsch Award of the Los Angeles Times.

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Review:

Mack brings us both Pope and the age in a biography as entertaining as it is masterly.

Mack's long-awaited life fulfills the highest expectations. . . . Written with elegance and clarity. . . . [A] superb work.

A first-rate biography. . . . Doubles as a masterly work of literary and cultural history. . . . Beautifully written.

Brings to life in richly imagined historical context the controversial figure of Alexander Pope, the most important poet of his time. . . . Brilliant analysis.--Patricia Meyer Spacks

Long-awaited. . . . Mr. Mack has now laid before us in impressive and authoritative fashion the whole life of Pope, an invaluable gift of scholarship and judgment. . . . Reads like a good Russian novel.--John M. Aden

[A] crowning achievement. . . . The rewards of reading [Pope] are immense--and so are the rewards of reading about him in this excellent biography.--John Gross

About the Author:

Maynard Mack is Sterling Professor of English Emeritus at Yale University.

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0393022080
• ISBN 13: 9780393022087
• Binding: Hardcover