How did Alexander Pope become the greatest poet of the eighteenth
century? Modern scholarship has typically taken Pope's rise to
greatness and subsequent remoteness from lesser authors for granted.
As a major poet he is treated as the successor of Milton and Dryden or
the precursor of Wordsworth. Drawing on previously neglected texts and
overlooked archival materials, Alexander Pope in the Making immerses
the poet in his milieux, providing a substantial new account of Pope's
early career, from the earliest traces of manuscript circulation to
the publication of his collected Works and beyond. In this book,
Joseph Hone illuminates classic poems such as An Essay on Criticism,
The Rape of the Lock, and Windsor-Forest by setting them alongside
lesser-known texts by Pope and his contempories, many of which have
never received sustained critical attention before. Pope's earliest
experiments in satire, panegyric, lyric, pastoral, and epic are all
explored alongside his translations, publication strategies, and
neglected editorial projects. By recovering values shared by Pope and
the politically heterodox men and women whose works he read and with
whom he collaborated, this book constructs powerful new interpretive
frameworks for some of the eighteenth century's most celebrated poems.
Alexander Pope in the Making mounts a comprehensive challenge to the
'Scriblerian' paradigm that has dominated scholarship for the past
eighty years. It sheds fresh light on Pope's early career and reshapes
our understanding of the ideological landscape of his era. This book
will be essential reading for scholars and students of
eighteenth-century literature, history, and politics.
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ISBN
9780192580917
Publisert
2021
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OUP Oxford
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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