The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings Alexander Pope Author

by Alexander Pope

2021-04-11 08:31:45

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 ... Read more
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. Less

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File size7.8 X 5.14 X 0.94 in
Print pages528
PublisherPenguin UK
Publication date June 30, 2011
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780141946290
Alexander Pope (Born in London, England May 21, 1688, DiedMay 30, 1744) is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the eighteenth century, best known for his satirical verse and for his tra...

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