Product Description: The Poetry of Pope

Product Description: Only rarely in publishing history has the ideal edition of a literary work been created, where text, typography, and illustrations complement one another perfectly. Among the few examples are the Kelmscott Chaucer, Baskerville's Milton, and Beardsley's Salome...read more

Product Description: WorksPoetry and Prose

Product Description: Book by Pope, Alexander

Product Description: 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.

Product Description: Contains facsimiles of the manuscripts and transcriptions of each page of the Pastorals, Sappho to Phaon, and the Epistle to Jervas, among others. The collations made by Jonathan Richardson, Jr., from the lost manuscripts of the early Dunciad are included...read more

Presents excerpts from the nineteenth-century writer's works.

Product Description: The poem Alexander Pope published as "The Dunciad" in 1728 was the core of the chef d'oeuvre that occupied him for at least half his life. After finally bringing the work to publishable form, he continually revised it and issued it in four major versions that appeared in nearly three dozen seperated editions...read more

Alexander Pope has often been termed the first truly professional poet in English. He had an acute awareness of traditions he had inherited and a clear vision of where he stood in literary history. In this representative selection of Pope's most important work Pat Rogers presents all the major poems and a characteristic sample of his prose, including satires, pamphlets, and periodical writing. Pope's criticism is represented by his preface to his edition of Shakespeare, and the personal side of his work is illustrated by short pasages from his conversations with Joseph Spence and examples of his wide-ranging correspondence. "Peri Bathous" is presented here in full, as well as the 1743 version of the "Dunciad". Some translations are also included. A feature of this volume is that the texts are presented in chronological order so that the "Moral Essays" and the "Imitations of Horace" are restored to their original position in Pope's career.

Product Description: This edition reprints the text of Pope's classic poem — both the five-canto 1714 version and the facsimilie of the original 1712 version — together with a broad selection of documents. Including correspondence, poems, broadsides, reviews, and parodies, the documents focus special attention on Pope's life and career as well as on eighteenth-century poetic traditions and innovations, social habits and assumptions, historical events, and political implications...read more

Product Description: This is a collection of extracts on war and adventure taken from the Illiad and the Odyssey.

Determined to produce a genius child, an ambitious father becomes almost obsessed with his son's education and training, but as the boy grows to a man, things do not turn out as expected.