Alexander Pope was the foremost poet of early eighteenth-century
England, but he was also a prolific prose writer. This anthology is
intended to make Pope's major prose work more widely available. It
includes the critical prefaces to his own work, to Homer, and to
Shakespeare; the mock-critical treatises, A Key to the Lock and The
Art of Sinking in Poetry which deride the poetry and criticism of
Pope's opponents, and raise important questions about the
principles of writing and interpretation; maliciously comic
pamphlets attacking John Dervis, Stephen Duck, Edmund Curll, and
Lord Hervey; and a selection from Pope's wide-ranging
correspondence, which illustrates his genius for friendship, and
his opinions on literature, politics, and religion. The volume
complements the critical and moral concerns of Pope's poetry,
documenting the controversies in which he was continuously engaged.
Pope emerges as a gifted critic and a complex mixture of integrity
and deviousness, a man concerned both for the culture of his day
and for his public image.
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