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Alexander Pope Poems (Hardcover)
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Alexander Pope Poems (Hardcover)
Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS
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As a young man Pope shot to fame with The Rape of the Lock, a
light-hearted mock-heroic poem about a trivial society scandal,
still his best remembered work. Wit and irony, dazzling technical
mastery - he perfected the English heroic couplet - acute social
observation and insight into human nature were to become the
hallmarks of his verse. Pope is one of the most quoted of English
poets - 'For Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread', 'A little
learning is a dangerous thing', 'To err is human, to forgive,
divine', all originate from his pen. While his poetry generally has
suffered some neglect in recent decades, Professor Claude Rawson's
selection persuasively demonstrates why it should be back in
fashion. He aspired to make out of verse satire a serious and
dignified form, and his culminating work, The Dunciad, achieves a
tragic gravity which transcends its satirical mockeries. An
elevated and ironic reflection on culture, it created a new genre
which led eventually to the modern masterpiece of T. S. Eliot's The
Waste Land. Pope was a precocious talent and anxious to advertise
the fact, inserting such subtitles as "Done by the Author at 12
years old" into his early published poems. He adopted many poetic
forms, and this anthology includes graceful and witty lyrics, verse
letters to friends in the Horatian mode, a number of devotional
poems, and a variety of important discursive poems on literary and
political themes, including An Essay on Criticism, Windsor-Forest,
and An Essay on Man. This edition uses the text of the Oxford
Standard Authors edition by Herbert Davis of Pope's Poetical Works,
1966. Complete poems rather than excerpts have been selected. The
beautifully typeset text is enhanced by illustrations by William
Kent from the first edition of The Dunciad.
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