The Cambridge Companion to Alexander PopePat Rogers Cambridge University Press, 6 dec 2007 Alexander Pope was the greatest poet of his age and the dominant influence on eighteenth-century British poetry. His large oeuvre, written over a thirty-year period, encompasses satires, odes and political verse and reflects the sexual, moral and cultural issues of the world around him, often in brilliant lines and phrases which have become part of our language today. This is the first overview to analyse the full range of Pope's work and to set it in its historical and cultural context. Specially commissioned essays by leading scholars explore all of Pope's major works, including the sexual politics of The Rape of the Lock, the philosophical enquiries of An Essay on Man and the Moral Essays, and the mock-heroic of The Dunciad in its various forms. This volume will be indispensable not only for students and scholars of Pope's work, but also for all those interested in the Augustan age. |
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Pagina 17
... letter to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, in which Pope flirtatiously imagines, in an effort to move Lady Mary to follow his example: “If Momus his project had taken of having Windows in our breasts, I should be for carrying it further and ...
... letter to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, in which Pope flirtatiously imagines, in an effort to move Lady Mary to follow his example: “If Momus his project had taken of having Windows in our breasts, I should be for carrying it further and ...
Pagina 29
... letter above) let his minions do that for him. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ... letters to the pirate publisher Edmund Curll, in order to justify 29 Pope's friends and enemies.
... letter above) let his minions do that for him. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ... letters to the pirate publisher Edmund Curll, in order to justify 29 Pope's friends and enemies.
Pagina 30
... letter to Addison written more than twenty years after the date assigned to it. “So ingeniously done . . . it is Pope's masterpiece in this kind” writes Sherburn (Corr, i, p. 183). When upon the discovery of Caryll's original letters ...
... letter to Addison written more than twenty years after the date assigned to it. “So ingeniously done . . . it is Pope's masterpiece in this kind” writes Sherburn (Corr, i, p. 183). When upon the discovery of Caryll's original letters ...
Pagina 33
... letters; his name appears variously as Tibbald, Theobald or even Mr. T for, as the first note reminds us, “the neglect of a Single Letter” is no trivial matter, “the alteration whereof . . . is an Atchivement [sic] that brings honour ...
... letters; his name appears variously as Tibbald, Theobald or even Mr. T for, as the first note reminds us, “the neglect of a Single Letter” is no trivial matter, “the alteration whereof . . . is an Atchivement [sic] that brings honour ...
Pagina 34
... letter containing, he thought, news of his loved companion Stella's death. “The last Act of Life is always a Tragedy at best,” he lamented (Swift Corr, iii, p. 123), stealing away to London and thence to Ireland, leaving Pope a letter ...
... letter containing, he thought, news of his loved companion Stella's death. “The last Act of Life is always a Tragedy at best,” he lamented (Swift Corr, iii, p. 123), stealing away to London and thence to Ireland, leaving Pope a letter ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 232 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Pagina 161 - But though the ancients thus their rules invade (As kings dispense with laws themselves have made), Moderns, beware! or if you must offend Against the precept, ne'er transgress its end; Let it be seldom, and compell'd by need; And have, at least, their precedent to plead.
Pagina 32 - With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast...
Pagina 57 - See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again: All forms that perish other forms supply; (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of Matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Pagina 57 - Look round our world; behold the chain of love Combining all below and all above. See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbour to embrace. See Matter next, with various life endued, Press to one centre still, the general good.
Pagina 64 - Some to the sun their insect-wings unfold, Waft on the breeze, or sink in clouds of gold ; Transparent forms, too fine for mortal sight, Their fluid bodies half...
Pagina 89 - To one small sect, and all are damn'd beside. Meanly they seek the blessing to confine. And force that sun but on a part to shine, Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, But ripens spirits in cold northern climes...
Pagina 67 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Pagina 57 - Nothing is foreign ; parts relate to whole ; One all-extending, all-preserving Soul Connects each being, greatest with the least ; Made beast in aid of man, and man of beast ; All served, all serving : nothing stands alone ; The chain holds on, and where it ends unknown.