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The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings Author: Alexander Pope
ISBN: 9780140423501 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 528 Published: 30 June 2011 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 13.0 x 2.5 Description: "The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings" is a collection of Alexander Pope's greatest works, edited with an introduction by Leo Damrosch in "Penguin Classics". Alexander Pope 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. This edition contains a wide-ranging in...
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