Selected Poetry

Name: Selected Poetry
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ISBN: 9780199537600

ISBN-10: 0199537607

ISBN-13: 9780199537600

Edition: 2008

Authors: Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers

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Though critical opinion on Alexander Pope has frequently been divided, he is now regarded as the most important poet of the early eighteenth century. An invalid from infancy, he devoted his energies towards literature and achieved remarkable success with his first published work at the age of twenty-one. A succession of brilliant poems followed, including An Essay on Criticism (1711), Windsor Forest (1715), and his masterpiece, The Rape of the Lock. 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 observation (displayed to greatest effect in…

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List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Introduction


Chronology


An Essay on Criticism Windsor Forest


The Rape of the Lock Epistile to Miss Blount, on her Leaving the Town after the Coronation Eloisa to Abelard Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady Epitaph Intended for Sir Isaac Newton


An Epistle to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington


An Epistle to Allen Lord Bathurst


The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot An Epistle to a Lady Epilogue to the Satires


Dialogue I Epilogue to the Satires


Dialogue II Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog


The Dunciad


Notes


Further Reading


Index of Titles


Index of First Lines