Essays on Pope

Major work on the poet Alexander Pope by leading Pope authority and well-known literary historian.

Pat Rogers (Author)

9780521418690, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 August 1993

284 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 2 cm, 0.543 kg

"...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

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.

1. Pope and the syntax of satire
2. The politics of style
3. Form and pattern in the Pastorals
4. Windsor-Forest, Britannia and river poetry
5. Faery lore and The Rape of the Lock
6. Timon's Villa and Chatsworth
7. A drama of mixed feelings: the Epistle to Arbuthnot
8. The name and nature of Dulness: proper nouns in The Dunciad
9. Pope and the social scene
10. Blacks and poetry and Pope
11. The case of Pope vs. Curll
12. Pope and his subscribers
13. The Burlington circle in the provinces: Pope's Yorkshire friends
14. Pope and the antiquarians
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC]