{"product_id":"selected-prose-of-alexander-pope-paperback-9780521271349","title":"Selected Prose of Alexander Pope (Paperback) 9780521271349","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSelected Prose of Alexander Pope\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis anthology was intended to make Pope's major prose work more widely available.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePaul Hammond (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521271349, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 17 December 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.43 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAlexander Pope was the foremost poet of early eighteenth-century England, but he was also a prolific prose writer. This anthology is intended to make Pope's major prose work more widely available. It includes the critical prefaces to his own work, to Homer, and to Shakespeare; the mock-critical treatises, A Key to the Lock and The Art of Sinking in Poetry which deride the poetry and criticism of Pope's opponents, and raise important questions about the principles of writing and interpretation; maliciously comic pamphlets attacking John Dervis, Stephen Duck, Edmund Curll, and Lord Hervey; and a selection from Pope's wide-ranging correspondence, which illustrates his genius for friendship, and his opinions on literature, politics, and religion. The volume complements the critical and moral concerns of Pope's poetry, documenting the controversies in which he was continuously engaged. Pope emerges as a gifted critic and a complex mixture of integrity and deviousness, a man concerned both for the culture of his day and for his public image.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Chronology\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Critical Specimen (1711)\u003cbr\u003e 2. Contributions to The Spectator (1711–2)\u003cbr\u003e 3. Contributions to The Guardian (1713)\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Narrative of Dr. Robert Norris (1713)\u003cbr\u003e 5. A Key to the Lock (1715)\u003cbr\u003e 6. From the translation of Homer: preface to The Iliad (1715), selected notes from The Iliad (1715–20), postscript to The Odyssey (1726)\u003cbr\u003e 7. Three attacks on Edmund Curll: A Full and True Account (1716), A Further Account (1716), and A Strange but True Relation (1720)\u003cbr\u003e 8. Preface to The Works (1717)\u003cbr\u003e 9. A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry (1717)\u003cbr\u003e 10. Preface to The Works of Shakespeare (1725)\u003cbr\u003e 11. ???? ?????? or, The Art of Sinking in Poetry (1727)\u003cbr\u003e 12. Of the Poet Laureate (1730)\u003cbr\u003e 13. A Letter to a Noble Lord (1733)\u003cbr\u003e 14. Selections from the correspondence\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: the notes of Brutus\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: two attacks on Pope by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and John, Lord Hervey\u003cbr\u003e Textual notes\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005348565272,"sku":"9780521271349","price":28.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521271349i_05099a7b-fe2a-44aa-800e-7b4431f79dd4.jpg?v=1691374305","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/selected-prose-of-alexander-pope-paperback-9780521271349","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}