[PDF] The Rape Of The Lock And Other Major Writings eBook

Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0141946296

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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.

Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher : Random House
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1409059979

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE GEE A hideous crime is committed at a fashionable London society gathering. The victim is the beautiful, innocent Belinda, her attacker is the dastardly Baron, and his weapon of choice is a pair of scissors... Pope's mock-epic is the sharp and witty tale of the most famous bad hair day in the history of literature.

Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1621075842

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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.

Author : Don Nichol
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 2016-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442669683

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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.

Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 38,80 MB
Release : 2008-10-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0199537615

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

Author : Alexander Pope
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,1 MB
Release : 2019-07-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0714548308

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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.