The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings

Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141946296
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 566

Book Description
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 of the Lock', which satirizes a notorious society scandal through glorious heroic couplets, the brilliantly aphoristic 'An Essay on Criticism' and excerpts from his translation of the Iliad. Later poems represented include Pope's ironic adaptations of Horace's Epistles, Satires and Odes, and the remarkable 'Dunciad', a stinging attack on his literary rivals and the mediocrity of Grub Street hacks. Here too are selected prose works and letters from Pope to his contemporaries such as John Gay and Jonathan Swift.

The Rape of the Lock

Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 30

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The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)

Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher: BookCaps Study Guides
ISBN: 1621075842
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 107

Book Description
Alexander Pope's mock-heroic poem is one of the greatest satires ever wrote. The essay is as hilarious today as it was hundreds of years ago...if you can understand it! If you have struggled in the past reading the satire, then BookCaps can help you out. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.

The Major Works

Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199537615
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 769

Book Description
First published with revisions as an Oxford World's Classics paperback: 2006.

Anniversary Essays on Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock'

Author: Don Nichol
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442669683
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
Alexander Pope’s heroi-comical, mock-epic poem, The Rape of the Lock, continues to sparkle after three hundred years as a peerless gem in the canon of English literature. In celebration of its tercentenary, this collection brings together ten eminent scholars with new perspectives on the poem. Their approaches reflect the vast range of interpretation of Pope’s text, from discussions of religion, gender, and eighteenth-century biological science to an interview with Sophie Gee about her novelization of the poem in The Scandal of the Season. These stimulating analyses will be essential reading for students and teachers of The Rape of the Lock and a valuable resource for investigating eighteenth-century culture.

Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock

Author: Gregor Roy
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Art of Sinking in Poetry

Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher: Alma Books
ISBN: 0714548308
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Written in 1727, The Art of Sinking in Poetry was one of Alexander Pope's contributions to the literary output of the legendary Scriblerus club - a circle of writers dedicated to mocking what they perceived as a culture of mediocrity and false learning prevalent in the arts and sciences of their day. Taking the form of an ironic guide to writing bad verse, Pope's tongue-in-cheek essay is wickedly funny in its lampooning of various pompous poetasters, as well as being essential reading for any budding writer wishing to avoid sinking to the unintentionally ridiculous, and instead reach for the sublime.

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 634

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Alexander Pope

Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher: Poet to Poet
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Poetry.

Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals

Author: Patricia Lockwood
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698156781
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
The acclaimed second collection of poetry by Patricia Lockwood, Booker Prize finalist author of the novel No One Is Talking About This and the memoir Priestdaddy SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times * The Boston Globe * Powell’s * The Strand * Barnes & Noble * BuzzFeed * Flavorwire “A formidably gifted writer who can do pretty much anything she pleases.” – The New York Times Book Review Colloquial and incantatory, the poems in Patricia Lockwood’s second collection address the most urgent questions of our time, like: Is America going down on Canada? What happens when Niagara Falls gets drunk at a wedding? Is it legal to marry a stuffed owl exhibit? Why isn’t anyone named Gary anymore? Did the Hatfield and McCoy babies ever fall in love? The steep tilt of Lockwood’s lines sends the reader snowballing downhill, accumulating pieces of the scenery with every turn. The poems’ subject is the natural world, but their images would never occur in nature. This book is serious and funny at the same time, like a big grave with a clown lying in it.