( Signed copy ) Alexander Pope. Tradition and Identity.

Language: English

Published by Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972

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x, 241 p. Handschriftliche Widmung des Autors John Paul Russo auf dem Vorsatz. Der Schutzumschlag ist lichtbedingt nachgedunkelt, die Seiten sind papierbedingt leicht nachgedunkelt, ansonsten ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen. / Handwritten dedication by the author, John Paul Russo, on the flyleaf. The dust jacket has darkened slightly due to exposure to light, and the pages have darkened slightly due to the paper; otherwise, this is a very good and clean copy with no markings. -- Contents -- 1. The Pantheon of Literature -- "The mighty dead". the identity and the tradition. the neoclassical dilemma concordia discors resolution -- 2. The Isolation of an Augustan Hero -- Childhood and adolescence (1688-1707) - disease and deformity self-education - early advocates the young rake the poetry of a bachelor religious isolation -- 3. Homer and the Heroic Ideal -- Translation and originality (1714-1725) the composition of Pope's "Homer" the Preface to the Iliad (1715) in- vention and fire the heroic imagination. Sarpedon and Achilles heroism and solitude -- 4. Pope and the Temple of Fame -- "Fame became of him" - The Preface to the Works (1717) - The Temple of Fame - the ruins of time elegies and epitaphs -- 5. A Living Image: Swift -- A friend in absentia (1714-1726) the Scriblerus Club - the letters of 1725. The Dunciad I-III (1728)-Pope's image of Swift retirement -- 6. The Free Soul -- A system of ethics Horace. Caesar and King George. The Epistle to Augustus (1737). political and literary fame and infamy. The Dunciad IV (1742). "CHAOS! is restor'd" -- Index. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 250. …

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Title
( Signed copy ) Alexander Pope. Tradition and Identity.
Author
Russo, John Paul:
Publisher
Cambridge: Harvard University Press
Publication year
1972
Condition
Sehr gut
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Binding
Hardcover with dust jacket.
Language
English
Item weight
250 grams
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