Leading literary historian and eighteenth-century specialist Pat Rogers has long been recognized as an authority on the poet Alexander Pope. This volume addresses the many facets of Pope's world and work, and represents Rogers's important contribution over the years to Pope studies. A substantial new essay on Pope and the antiquarians is presented alongside considerably revised versions of essays published in scholarly journals, which together cover most of Pope's major work, including the Pastorals, Windsor Forest, Rape of the Lock, Epistle to Arbuthnot and The Dunciad. There are general essays on form and style, Pope's social context, his dealings with the Burlington circle, and his battles with his publisher. Essays on Pope gathers for the first time the best writing on this celebrated author by one of our foremost critics, and is an indispensable resource for scholars of eighteenth-century literature.
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CONTRIBUTORS: Pat Rogers
EAN: 9780521418690
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 543 g
HEIGHT: 235 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 1993-08-27
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GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
WIDTH: 157 cm
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Book Themes:
English, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: poetry and poets
"...one is reminded of how much of Rogers's work has been antiquarian in the best sense, the collecting of facts that help us collect our thoughts." John Sitter, SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
