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| Title | : | The Poems of Alexander Pope |
| Author | : | Alexander Pope |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 880 pages |
| Published | : | 1966 by Yale University Press (first published 1744) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Classics. Fiction |
Alexander Pope
Paperback | Pages: 880 pages Rating: 3.96 | 334 Users | 17 Reviews
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A splendid presentation of Pope’s poems, excluding only his translations of Homer, this is the only one-volume edition that can lay claim to completeness and accuracy of text. It presents the corpus of Pope’s poetry as printed in the highly praised Twickenham Edition, except for the 1712 version of The Rape of the Lock and other early versions of phrases preserved in the critical apparatus of the six-volume work. Pope’s own notes to his poems are included, as well as a generous selection of the copious annotation in the Twickenham text. This reduced version of the unsurpassed standard edition of Pope will be of great value to all students and teachers of English literature. John Butt, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh University, is general editor of the Twickenham Edition."The publishers are surely right in claiming that 'this should for long remain the standard one-volume edition of Pope's poems.' The Twichenham edition . . . has been a splendid achievement, and Professor Butt's distillation of the long labours of his fellow-editors is most commendable."—Times Literary Supplement.
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| Original Title: | The Poems of Alexander Pope: A reduced version of the Twickenham Text |
| ISBN: | 0300000308 (ISBN13: 9780300000306) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.96 From 334 Users | 17 ReviewsDiscuss Epithetical Books The Poems of Alexander Pope
simply greatNot that everything he wrote is that good, and this does include over 800 pages of it, but that's just it.
I can't say I read everything in this voluminous collection of Pope's poems and translations, but if you go through it and select the shorter poems, you will find pleasures in the poems and their wording and rhyming. Pope is rather forgotten these days, but he rewards a reader who takes the time to try. I'd suggest the shorter poems. I'd also suggest, as I plan to do, to read the poems over a period of time, checking in, sampling, and then revisit. The book is also at a good price: a free Nook
Miss being in English Literature class. It was a treat to understand and read the sarcasm Pope had.
I like his writing style, but too many of his poems are concerned with being witty and ostentatious. It seems he can't write a poem without having to make references to Greek/Roman mythology and without dedicating it to other poets and 'illustrious figures'. Both these qualities make him pompous and impure. I can't deny his Essay on Man was good -among others- but I excepted better after hearing so much about him.
Not a huge fan of Early Pope tbh, but those later works are sublime
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