The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, by George Gilfillan. The Gilfillan Poets, series

Published by Edinburgh, London, Dublin. James Nichol & James Nisbet and Co. 1856, 1856

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8vo. 21.8cm, in 2 volumes, xxviii,315 & xxiv,326pp., bound in attractive dark green polished and speckled hard calf, gilt ruled on raised bands, gilt spine titles, single ruled gilt borders on the boards, elaborate wide inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, attractive fine signed binding Zaehnsdorf, fine. (ds1) - Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet, literary dictator of his age and regarded as the English epitome of neo-Classicism. His poetry is characterized by satire, epigram, didacticism, smoothness and technical finish, invective, biting and malicious wit, and skillful use of the closed or heroic couplet. Pope, a Catholic and the son of a linen-draper in London, was unable to attend a public school or a university because of governmental restrictions against Catholic after the Revolution of 1688. A hunchback and cripple as the result of a serious illness in childhood, Pope relieved his sense of rancor in jealous, spiteful, and venomous attacks on his contemporaries; because of this, he was called the "Wicked Wasp of Twickenham", form the name of the London suburb where he lived. He was a Tory in politics and a friend of John Gay and Jonathan Swift. His best known works are "Pastorals", 1709; "Essay on Criticism", 1711; which made Pope famous and which, he claimed he wrote when he was only twelve years old; "The Rape of the Lock", 1712; "Windsor Forest", 1713; translations of the "Iliad", 1715-1720; and the "Odyssey", 1725 -1726;, etc. etc.…

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Title
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, by George Gilfillan. The Gilfillan Poets, series
Author
POPE, Alexander
Publisher
Edinburgh, London, Dublin. James Nichol & James Nisbet and Co. 1856
Publication year
1856
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