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  3. The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope
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  • Edited by Pat Rogers, University of South Florida
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
April 2008
Print publication year:
2007
Online ISBN:
9781139001700
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521840132
Collection:
Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
Subjects:
Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1700-1830
Series:
Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Alexander Pope was the greatest poet of his age and the dominant influence on eighteenth-century British poetry. His large oeuvre, written over a thirty-year period, encompasses satires, odes and political verse and reflects the sexual, moral and cultural issues of the world around him, often in brilliant lines and phrases which have become part of our language today. This is the first overview to analyse the full range of Pope's work and to set it in its historical and cultural context. Specially commissioned essays by leading scholars explore all of Pope's major works, including the sexual politics of The Rape of the Lock, the philosophical enquiries of An Essay on Man and the Moral Essays, and the mock-heroic of The Dunciad in its various forms. This volume will be indispensable not only for students and scholars of Pope's work, but also for all those interested in the Augustan age.

Reviews

"...sharply argued and astutely arranged essays, which are above all marked by the sophistication and maturity of judgment they collectively display...Recommended."
-C.S. Vilmar, Salisbury University, Choice

"...should be required reading for all undergraduates coming--not just to Pope--but to eighteenth-century poetry in general for the first time... Highly recommended."
--The Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography

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