The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings
$40.80
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2011
Summary
A comprehensive new selection of the great satirist’s prose and poetic works, edited by Leo Damrosch
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights into human nature have entered the language, and whose verse still astonishes with its energy and inventiveness centuries after his death. This new selection of Pope’s work follows the path of his poetic genius over his lifetime. It contains early poems including the masterly mock-epic ‘The Rape…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140423501 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140423508 |
| Author: | Alexander Pope, Leo Damrosch |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2011 |
| Weight: | 368g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 23mm |
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About The Author
Alexander Pope
ALEXANDER POPE was born in London in 1688, the son of a well-to-do Roman Catholic cloth merchant. In 1709 he launched his career with a set of four pastorals, followed by An Essay on Criticism, Windsor Forest and the mock-epic Rape of the Lock, which cemented his reputation as the greatest poet of the age. Later works included the Dunciad, Epistles to Several Persons and the ambitious Essay on Man. Pope died in 1743.
LEO DAMROSCH, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University, is the author of eight books on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature and culture, including The Imaginative World of Alexander Pope, God’s Plot and Man’s Stories- Studies in the Fictional Imagination from Milton to Fielding, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau- Restless Genius.
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