The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings
Alexander Pope - Author
ISBN 9780140423501 | 960 pages | 30 Aug 2011 | Penguin Classics | 5.07 x 7.79in | 18 - AND UP
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The major works of the greatest English poet of his age.
The energy and inventiveness of Alexander Pope's verse still astonish centuries after his death. This new collection follows the path of Pope's poetic genius over his lifetime, featuring early poems such as the masterly mock-epic "The Rape of the Lock," which satirizes a notorious society scandal in glorious heroic couplets, and excerpts from his translation of the Iliad. Later writings include Pope's ironic adaptations of Horace's Epistles and a stinging attack on his literary rivals and the mediocrity of Grub Street hacks. Collected here, too, are selected prose works and letters to such contemporaries as John Gay and Jonathan Swift. Chronology Introduction Further Reading A Note on the Texts EARLY POEMS An Essay on Criticism Windsor Forest Prologue to Mr. Addison's Tragedy of Cato The Rape of the Lock Epistle to Mrs. Teresa Blount Eloisa to Abelard Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady From the Iliad LATER POEMS [Two epigrams] An Essay on Man Epistles to Several Persons I To Sir Richard Temple, Lord Cobham II To a Lady III To Allen Lord Bathurst IV To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington The Fourth Satire of Dr. John Donne Versified An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [Imitations of Horace] Satire, II, i Satire, II, ii Epistle, I, i Epistle, II, i Epistle, II, ii Ode, IV, i Ode, IV, ix Epilogue to the Satires The Dunciad PROSE WRITINGS From the Preface to the Iliad From the Preface to The Works of Shakespeare From Peri Bathous, or: Of the Art of Sinking in Poetry Selected Letters Notes |
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