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Selected
Prose of Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope,
Paul Hammond (Editor) - Publisher's
Marketing: "Alexander Pope was the foremost
poet of early eighteenth-century England, but he was
also a prolific prose writer. This anthology is intended
to make Pope's major prose work more widely available.
It includes the critical prefaces to his own work,
to Homer, and to Shakespeare; the mock-critical treatises,
A Key to the Lock and The Art of Sinking in Poetry,
which deride the poetry and criticism of Pope's opponents,
and raise important questions about the principles
of writing and interpretation; maliciously comic pamphlets
attacking John Dervis, Stephen Duck, Edmund Curll,
and Lord Hervey; and a selection from Pope's wide-ranging
correspondence, which illustrates his genius for friendship,
and his opinions on literature, politics, and religion.
The volume complements the critical and moral concerns
of Pope's poetry, documenting the controversies in
which he was continuously engaged. Pope emerges as
a gifted critic and a complex mixture of integrity
and deviousness, a man concerned both for the culture
of his day and for his public image. "
Call number: OPC - PR3622 .H35 1987
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The
Life and Works of Alexander Pope