CRITICISM
(d) POPE IN PRINT AND MANUSCRIPT ’Books and the man’ Pope is the pre-eminent case of a poet who speaks through writing: never to occupy any public position which required oratory, Pope preferred to advise and cajole those of his acquaintance who had money and power through the form of ’Epistles’ which constructed dialogues for […]
CRITICISM
\ >* CRITICISM (a) POPE AND POETRY Pope was right enough to declare with studied casualness that ’The life of a Wit is a warfare upon earth’ (PWl: 292), for there was little in contemporary criticism of his poetry which was not motivated by opposition and envy. Nonetheless, Pope’s actual publishing career was immensely successful […]
2 WORKS
(a) AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM (1711) [TE I: 195-326] The Essay on Criticism was Pope’s first independent work, published anonymously through an obscure bookseller [12-13]. Its implicit claim to authority is not based on a lifetime’s creative work or a prestigious commission but, riskily, on the skill and argument of the poem alone. It offers […]
LIFE AND CONTEXTS
(a) A CATHOLIC CHILDHOOD Because Pope was not primarily a lyric poet like Donne, or an explorer of private mental experience like Wordsworth, we tend to think of him as essentially a public voice, the satirist of civil follies rather than the analyst of personal emotions. Many of the vices Pope attacked are forms of […]
INTRODUCTION
This book examines the literary career of the poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744). The son of a merchant, Pope became the dominant poet of his generation despite considerable ill-health and deformity. As a Catholic, he was a politically suspect outsider, but turned his internal exile into a platform from which to comment on the social and […]
CONTENTS
Series editors’ preface ; Acknowledgements Abbreviations and referencing Introduction IX xi xiii Part I LIFE AND CONTEXTS (a) A Catholic childhood (b) Forest retreats ”•> (c) Literary London (d) Kings and queens (e) Scriblerus (f) Epic intent (g) Booksellers and ladies (h) Works and days (i) Twickenham : (j) Shakespeare . , (k) Epic of […]
A complete guide to the works of Alexander Pope by Paul Baines M
Contents INTRODUCTION LIFE AND CONTEXTS WORKS CRITICISM CRITICISM 2 CHRONOLOGY and Bibliography INDEX
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ,
(WORKS CITED AND ADDITIONAL READING) A GENERAL WORKS Bakhtin, M. (1981) The Dialogic Imagination, Austin: University of Texas Press. Barry, P. (1995) Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory, Manchester: Manchester University Press. Brannigan, J. (1998) New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, Basingstoke: Macmillan. Brooks, C. (1947) The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the […]
PART III CRITICISM
?^ •”^r t ^3?” CRITICISM MSOITLO J.v V The aim of this section is to consider a range of critical responses to the work of D.H. Lawrence. Consequently, the views of his contemporaries and early commentators (which included T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, John Middleton Murry and Rebecca West, among others who are now […]
PART II
WORK 1 WORK .•>.<”’ This section provides a general introduction to Lawrence’s writing. Lawrence was prolific and it is not possible here, or desirable, to give equal weighting to everything he produced. The sub-sections that follow are necessarily synoptic. They draw attention to his work in a range of genres. The commentary focuses on specific […]