The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings

The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings
Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 566
Release: 2011-06-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0141946296

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights into human nature have entered the language, and whose verse still astonishes with its energy and inventiveness centuries after his death. This new selection of Pope's work follows the path of his poetic genius over his lifetime. It contains early poems including the masterly mock-epic 'The Rape of the Lock', which satirizes a notorious society scandal through glorious heroic couplets, the brilliantly aphoristic 'An Essay on Criticism' and excerpts from his translation of the Iliad. Later poems represented include Pope's ironic adaptations of Horace's Epistles, Satires and Odes, and the remarkable 'Dunciad', a stinging attack on his literary rivals and the mediocrity of Grub Street hacks. Here too are selected prose works and letters from Pope to his contemporaries such as John Gay and Jonathan Swift.

Alexander Pope in the Making

Alexander Pope in the Making
Author: Joseph Hone
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2021-01-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198842317

Explores Alexander Pope's early career as a literary author, and provides a transformative account of the eighteenth century poet.

Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope
Author: Maynard Mack
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 1000
Release: 1988-04-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393305296

The noted Yale scholar and critic offers a complete biography of the great eighteenth-century poet, elucidating his skills as a doubly disadvantaged individual and his triumphs as a poet and spokesman for his times

The Imaginative World of Alexander Pope

The Imaginative World of Alexander Pope
Author: Leopold Damrosch Jr.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0520335910

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

Art of Sinking in Poetry

Art of Sinking in Poetry
Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher: Alma Books
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2019-07-07
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0714548308

Written in 1727, The Art of Sinking in Poetry was one of Alexander Pope's contributions to the literary output of the legendary Scriblerus club - a circle of writers dedicated to mocking what they perceived as a culture of mediocrity and false learning prevalent in the arts and sciences of their day. Taking the form of an ironic guide to writing bad verse, Pope's tongue-in-cheek essay is wickedly funny in its lampooning of various pompous poetasters, as well as being essential reading for any budding writer wishing to avoid sinking to the unintentionally ridiculous, and instead reach for the sublime.

The Poet and the Publisher

The Poet and the Publisher
Author: Pat Rogers
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2021-06-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1789144191

“Drawing on deep familiarity with the period and its personalities, Rogers has given us a witty and richly detailed account of the ongoing war between the greatest poet of the eighteenth century and its most scandalous publisher.”—Leo Damrosch, author of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age “What sets Rogers’s history apart is his ability to combine fastidious research with lucid, unpretentious prose. History buffs and literary-minded readers alike are in for a punchy, drama-filled treat.”—Publishers Weekly The quarrel between the poet Alexander Pope and the publisher Edmund Curll has long been a notorious episode in the history of the book, when two remarkable figures with a gift for comedy and an immoderate dislike of each other clashed publicly and without restraint. However, it has never, until now, been chronicled in full. Ripe with the sights and smells of Hanoverian London, The Poet and Publisher details their vitriolic exchanges, drawing on previously unearthed pamphlets, newspaper articles, and advertisements, court and government records, and personal letters. The story of their battles in and out of print includes a poisoning, the pillory, numerous instances of fraud, and a landmark case in the history of copyright. The book is a forensic account of events both momentous and farcical, and it is indecently entertaining.

The Major Works

The Major Works
Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 769
Release: 2008-10-09
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0199537615

First published with revisions as an Oxford World's Classics paperback: 2006.