Essays on Pope
Essays on Pope
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Leading literary historian and eighteenth-century specialist Pat Rogers has long been recognized as an authority on Alexander Pope. This book addresses the many facets of the poet's world and work, presenting a substantial new essay on "Pope and the antiquarians" alongside considerably revised versions of essays published in journals, which together cover most of Pope's major writing. Essays on Pope gathers for the first time the best work on this celebrated author by one of the foremost critics, and is an indispensable resource for scholars of eighteenth-century literature.
- The only book covering Pope's major work comprehensively and authoritatively
- Author is leading literary historian, critic and journalist
- Important scholarly contribution to eighteenth-century studies
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"...one is reminded of how much of Rogers's work has been antiquarian in the best sense, the collecting of facts that help us collect our thoughts." John Sitter, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
Product details
August 1993Hardback
9780521418690
284 pages
235 × 157 × 20 mm
0.543kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Pope and the syntax of satire
- 2. The politics of style
- 3. Form and pattern in the Pastorals
- 4. Windsor-Forest, Britannia and river poetry
- 5. Faery lore and The Rape of the Lock
- 6. Timon's Villa and Chatsworth
- 7. A drama of mixed feelings: the Epistle to Arbuthnot
- 8. The name and nature of Dulness: proper nouns in The Dunciad
- 9. Pope and the social scene
- 10. Blacks and poetry and Pope
- 11. The case of Pope vs. Curll
- 12. Pope and his subscribers
- 13. The Burlington circle in the provinces: Pope's Yorkshire friends
- 14. Pope and the antiquarians
- Index.
