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Selected poetry and prose / Alexander Pope ; edited by Robin Sowerby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
- Series:
- Routledge English texts.
- Routledge English texts
- Standardized Title:
- Selections. 1988
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
- Pope, Alexander.
- English literature--18th century.
- English literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (315 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1988.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Alexander Pope's technical polish and intellectual poise appeal to the subtlest audience. This selection includes The Rape of the Lock, Eloisa to Abelard, and extracts from The Dunciad and the translation of Homer.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Ode on Solitude; Adriani morientis ad Animam; To Henry Cromwell, 19 October 1709 [with Argus]; To Henry Cromwell, 25 November 1710 [on versification]; An Essay on Criticism; Epistle to Miss Blount with the Works of Voiture; from Windsor Forest; [On sickness] (essay from The Guardian); The Rape of the Lock; Epistle to Miss Blount, on her leaving the Town, after the Coronation; Eloisa to Abelard; Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady; from the Preface to the Works of Shakespeare; To Mrs M.B. on her Birthday
- Epitaph. On Mrs Corbett, Who died of a Cancer in her BreastEpitaph. On Mr Gay. In Westminster Abbey, 1732; Epistle to a lady. Of the Characters of Women; Epistle to Burlington; To Dr Arbuthnot, 26 July 1734 [On his satire]; An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot; The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated: To Mr Fortescue; The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated: To L.Bolingbroke; The First Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace: To Venus; Critical commentary; Select bibliography; Notes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliography: p. 249-251.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-98689-0
- 1-134-98690-4
- 1-280-32539-9
- 0-203-20029-2
- 9780203200292
- OCLC:
- 437078345
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