Poems of Alexander Pope A Reduced Version of the Twickenham Text

Name: Poems of Alexander Pope A Reduced Version of the Twickenham Text
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ISBN: 9780300000306

ISBN-10: 0300000308

ISBN-13: 9780300000306

Edition: N/A

Authors: Alexander Pope, John Butt

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A splendid presentation of Pope’s poems, excluding only his translations of Homer, this is the only one-volume edition that can lay claim to completeness and accuracy of text. It presents the corpus of Pope’s poetry as printed in the highly praised Twickenham Edition, except for the 1712 version ofThe Rape of the Lockand other early versions of phrases preserved in the critical apparatus of the six-volume work. Pope’s own notes to his poems are included, as well as a generous selection of the copious annotation in the Twickenham text. This reduced version of the unsurpassed standard edition of Pope will be of great value to all students and teachers of English literature. John Butt, Regius…

Book details

List price: $43.95
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 9/10/1966
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 880
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.95" long x 1.84" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Satirical poet Alexander Pope was born in London on May 21, 1688. He was educated by private tutors. Many consider Pope to be the greatest poet of his time, and he also wrote commentaries and translations, he is best known for such poems as The Rape of the Lock and The Duncaid. Pope was the first English poet to make a substantial amount of money from his writing. Pope died on May 30, 1744.