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Introduction
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Part I LIFE AND CONTEXTS
(a) A Catholic childhood
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(d) Kings and queens
(e) Scriblerus
(f) Epic intent
(g) Booksellers and ladies (h) Works and days
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Part III CRITICISM
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Pope and poetry
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SERIES EDITORS7 PREFACE
The Complete Critical Guide to English Literature is a ground-breaking collection of one-volume introductions to the work of the major writers in the English literary canon. Each volume in the series offers the reader a comprehensive account of the featured author’s life, of his- or her writing and of the ways in which his or her works have been interpreted by literary critics. The series is both explanatory and stimulating; it reflects the achievements of state-of-the-art literary-historical research and yet manages to be intellectually accessible for the reader who may be encountering a canonical author’s work for the first time. It will be useful for students and teachers of literature at all levels, as well as for the general reader; each book can be read through, or consulted in a companion-style fashion.
The aim of The Complete Critical Guide to English Literature is to adopt an approach that is as factual, objective and non-partisan as possible, in order to provide the ’full picture’ for readers and allow them to form their own judgements. At the same time, however, the books engage the reader in a discussion of the most demanding questions involved in each author’s life and work. Did Pope’s physical condition affect his treatment of matters of gender and sexuality^ Does a feminist reading of Middlemarch enlighten us regarding the book’s presentation of nineteenth-century British society?- Do we deconstruct Beckett’s work, or does he do so himself <?• Contributors to this series address such crucial questions, offer potential solutions and recommend further reading for independent study. In doing so, they equip the reader for an informed and confident examination of the life and work of key canonical figures and of the critical controversies surrounding them. The aims of the series are reflected in the structure of the books. Part I, ’Life and Contexts’, offers a compact biography of the featured author against the background of his or her epoch. In Part II, ’Work’, the focus is on the author’s most important works, discussed from a non-partisan, literary-historical perspective; the section provides an account of the works, reflecting a consensus of critical opinion on them, and indicating, where appropriate, areas of controversy. These and other issues are taken up again in Part III, ’Criticism’, which offers an account of the critical responses generated by the author’s work. Contemporaneous reviews and debates are considered, along with opinions inspired by more recent theoretical approaches, such as New Criticism,
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feminism, Marxism, psychoanalytic criticism, deconstruction and New Historicism.
The volumes in this series will together constitute a comprehensive reference work offering an up-to-date, user-friendly and reliable account of the heritage of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. We hope that The Complete Critical Guide to English Literature will become for its readers, academic and non-academic alike, an indispensable source of information and inspiration.
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Throughout the text, references to Pope’s poems are from The Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope, general editor John Butt, 11 volumes (London: Methuen, 1939-69), abbreviated as TE. Specific volumes are used as follows::
/ Pastoral Poetry and an Essay on Criticism, eds E. Audra and Aubrey
Williams (1961) // The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems, ed. Geoffrey Tillotson,
third edition (1962)
///./ An Essay on Man, ed. Maynard Mack (1950) III.ii Epistles to Several Persons (Moral Essays), ed. F.W Bateson (1951)
IV Imitations of Horace, with An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot and the Epilogue to the Satires, ed. John Butt (1939)
V The Dunciad, ed. James Sutherland, second edition (1953)
VI Minor Poems, eds Norman Ault and John Butt (1964)
All references are to page numbers ’ :’-’ -•• –•..-••• «*p –
Individual poems within these volumes are referenced as follows: Arb An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot ,,„,.,, . …… …-
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EC An Essay on Criticism
EM An Essay on Man
Ep. 2.i The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated
Ep. Z.ii The Second Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated
Epil. i Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I
Epil. ii Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue II
Lady Epistle to a Lady
RL The Rape of the Lock
Sat. Z.i The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated
Sat. Z.ii The Second Satire of the Second Book of Horace Paraphrased
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Other abbreviations are:
Letters The Correspondence of Alexander Pope, ed. George Sherburn, 5
volumes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956) PWi The Prose Works of Alexander Pope: The Earlier Works 1711-1720,
ed. Norman Ault (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1938) PWii The Prose Works of Alexander Pope: Volume II: The Major Works
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