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Selected Poetry
Alexander Pope
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Description for Selected Poetry
Paperback. Editor(s): Rogers, Pat. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 190.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is regarded as the most important poet of the early eighteenth century. An invalid from infancy, Pope devoted his energies towards literature and achieved remarkable success with his first published work at the age of 21. A succession of brilliant poems followed, including An Essay on Criticism (1711), Windsor Forest (1713), and his masterpiece The Rape of the Lock (1712). A second period of great poetry was begun in 1728 with the appearance of the first Dunciad. All these works, which exhibit Pope's astonishing human insight, his wide sympathies, and powers of social ... Read more
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is regarded as the most important poet of the early eighteenth century. An invalid from infancy, Pope devoted his energies towards literature and achieved remarkable success with his first published work at the age of 21. A succession of brilliant poems followed, including An Essay on Criticism (1711), Windsor Forest (1713), and his masterpiece The Rape of the Lock (1712). A second period of great poetry was begun in 1728 with the appearance of the first Dunciad. All these works, which exhibit Pope's astonishing human insight, his wide sympathies, and powers of social ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199537600
SKU
V9780199537600
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About Alexander Pope
Pat Rogers is DeBartolo Professor of the Liberal Arts at the University of South Florida. He has written books on Pope, Swift, Johnson, Defoe, and Fielding, as well as general books such as The Augustan Vision (1974), and Literature and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century England (1985). He is the editor of The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature.
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