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Oxford University Press, 1998 - Poetry - 226 pages
Though critical opinion on Alexander Pope has frequently been divided, he is now regarded as the most important poet of the early eighteenth century. An invalid from infancy, he devoted his energies towards literature and achieved remarkable success with his first published work at the age of twenty-one. A succession of brilliant poems followed, including An Essay on Criticism (1711), Windsor Forest (1715), and his masterpiece, The Rape of the Lock. A second period of great poetry was begun in 1728 with the appearance of the first Dunciad. All these works--which exhibit Pope's astonishing human insight, his wide sympathies, and powers of social observation (displayed to greatest effect in his talent for satire)--are included in this selection of his poetry. It has been compiled by the distinguished Pope scholar and editor Pat Rodgers, who also provides an indispensable introduction that offers a new interpretation of Pope's poetry, and the philosophical ideas behind it.
  

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User Review  - Markus Whittaker - Goodreads

Rhyming couplets shit me to tears. The stilted nature of much of Pope's poetry, the forced rhyme, the incessantly repetitive metre - it lack imagination by todays standards. But one can't judge these ... Read full review

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User Review  - James Schwartz - Goodreads

Classic! There are not many poets "above" Pope! Read full review

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Contents

Windsor Forest
20
The Rape of the Lock 3 2
32
Epistle to Miss Blount on her Leaving the Town after
54
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
65
An Epistle to Allen Lord Bathurst
74
The Pirst Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated
88
An Epistle to a Lady
106
Dialogue I
114
Dialogue II
120
Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog
128
Notes
175
Further Reading
225
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About the author (1998)

Pat Rogers is DeBartolo Professor of the Liberal Arts at the University of South Florida. He has written books on Pope, Swift, Johnson, Defoe, and Fielding, as well as general books such as The Augustan Vision (1974), and Literature and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century England (1985). He is the editor of The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature.

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TitleSelected poetry
Oxford world's classics
AuthorAlexander Pope
EditorPat Rogers
Editionillustrated, reprint, reissue
PublisherOxford University Press, 1998
ISBN0192834940, 9780192834942
Length226 pages
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Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  
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