| Description |
1 online resource (255 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge collections online
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Cambridge companions complete collection
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Cambridge companions to literature and classics
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| Contents |
Introduction / Pat Rogers -- Pope, self, and world / Helen Deutsch -- Pope's friends and enemies: fighting with shadows / David Nokes -- Pope's versification and voice / John Sitter -- Poetic spaces / Cynthia Wall -- Pope's Homer and his poetic career / Steven Shankman -- Pope and the classics / Howard D. Weinbrot -- Pope and the Elizabethans / David Fairer -- Pope in Arcadia: pastoral and its dissolution / Pat Rogers -- Pope and ideology / Brian Young -- Pope and the poetry of opposition / Howard Erskine-Hill -- Crime and punishment / Paul Baines -- Landscapes and estates / Malcolm Kelsall -- Money / Catherine Ingrassia -- Pope and the book trade / James McLaverty -- Pope and gender / Valerie Rumbold -- Medicine and the body / George Rousseau -- Pope and the other / Laura Brown |
| Summary |
Alexander Pope was the greatest poet of his age and the dominant influence on 18th century British poetry. This is the first overview to analyse the full range of Pope's work and to set it in its historical and cultural context |
| Notes |
Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Feb 2013) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 -- Criticism and interpretation
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English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Author |
Rogers, Pat, 1938-
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| ISBN |
9781139001700 (electronic bk.) |
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1139001701 (electronic bk.) |
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