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The Dunciad, The Rape of the Lock, and Peri Bathous are presented in full, together with a characteristic sample of Pope's prose, including satires, pamphlets, and periodical writing. The influential preface to his edition of Shakespeare is here, as well as passages from his conversations with Joseph Spence and examples of his wide-ranging correspondence. This fine edition features a comprehensive biographical index, as well as an introduction and invaluable notes. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. 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Alexander Pope was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights into human nature have entered the language, and whose verse still astonishes with its energy and inventiveness centuries after his death. This new selection of Pope's work follows the path of his poetic genius over his lifetime. It contains early poems including the masterly mock-epic '\u003cb\u003eThe Rape of the Lock\u003c\/b\u003e', which satirizes a notorious society scandal through glorious heroic couplets, the brilliantly aphoristic '\u003cb\u003eAn Essay on Criticism\u003c\/b\u003e' and excerpts from his translation of the Iliad. Later poems represented include Pope's ironic adaptations of Horace's \u003cb\u003eEpistles, Satires and Odes\u003c\/b\u003e, and the remarkable '\u003cb\u003eDunciad\u003c\/b\u003e', a stinging attack on his literary rivals and the mediocrity of Grub Street hacks. Here too are selected prose works and letters from Pope to his contemporaries such as John Gay and Jonathan Swift. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This edition contains a wide-ranging introduction that elucidates Pope's life, poetic art and contemporary contexts, as well as separate introductions to each piece, a chronology, further reading, a biography and extensive notes. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43399988347058,"sku":"9780140423501","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780140423501.jpg?v=1786011376"},{"product_id":"9780099511526","title":"The Rape of the Lock","description":"\u003cp\u003eWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE GEE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA hideous crime is committed at a fashionable London society gathering. 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A succession of brilliant poems followed, including An Essay on Criticism (1711), Windsor Forest (1713), and his masterpiece The Rape of the Lock (1712). A second period of great poetry was begun in 1728 with the appearance of the first Dunciad. All these works, which exhibit Pope's astonishing human insight, his wide sympathies, and powers of social observation (displayed to greatest effect in his talent for satire), feature in this selection. In his introduction - an eloquent defence of Pope's poetic practice - Pat Rogers argues that we must abandon our Romantic conception of poetry as a record of fleeting and subjective states if we are to understand Pope fully. Instead, we must see him as an accomplished practitioner of the poetry of ideas and of satirical reflection on human society. This collection is chosen from the Oxford Authors critical edition of Pope's major works. 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Wit and irony, dazzling technical mastery  - he perfected the English heroic couplet - acute social observation and insight into human nature were to become the hallmarks of his verse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePope is one of the most quoted of English poets - 'For Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread', 'A little learning is a dangerous thing', 'To err is human, to forgive, divine', all originate from his pen. While his poetry generally has suffered some neglect in recent decades, Professor Claude Rawson's selection persuasively demonstrates why it should be back in fashion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe aspired to make out of verse satire a serious and dignified form, and his culminating work, \u003ci\u003eThe Dunciad\u003c\/i\u003e, achieves a tragic gravity which transcends its satirical mockeries. An elevated and ironic reflection on culture, it created a new genre which led eventually to the modern masterpiece of T. S. Eliot's \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePope was a precocious talent and anxious to advertise the fact, inserting such subtitles as “Done by the Author at 12 years old” into his early published poems. He adopted many poetic forms, and this anthology includes graceful and witty lyrics, verse letters to friends in the Horatian mode, a number of devotional poems, and a variety of important discursive poems on literary and political themes, including \u003ci\u003eAn\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eEssay on Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWindsor-Forest\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAn Essay on Man\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition uses the text of the Oxford Standard Authors edition by Herbert Davis of Pope’s \u003ci\u003ePoetical Works\u003c\/i\u003e, 1966. Complete poems rather than excerpts have been selected. 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But the result – which in its ingenuity and poetical brilliance reaches peaks of epic sublime – concealed darker and more dangerous undertones that unleashed an even greater storm between the parties involved – and among the whole literary world of the time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Belinda glides along the Thames admired for her beauty and the crafty Baron schemes to take his prize, a host of supernatural beings – elfs, sylphs, gnomes – dance around them to avoid the impending doom, in what is Pope’s crowning poetical achievement and perhaps the greatest satirical poem ever written. Included in this volume are the original two-canto version of \u003ci\u003eThe Rape of the Lock\u003c\/i\u003e and Pope’s hilarious mock-interpretation of the poem as a seditious work, \u003ci\u003eA Key to the Lock\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308506460533,"sku":"9781847497260","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781847497260_f6bae6d0-c263-4653-b59e-4dadd25fa4cd.jpg?v=1786029339"},{"product_id":"9789357278027","title":"An Essay On Man; Moral Essays And Satires","description":"Alexander Pope published a poem titled \"An Essay on Man: Moral Essays and Satires\" between 1733 and 1734. The opening line, \"Awake, St. John,\" refers to Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, which is pronounced, \"Bull-en-brook.\" In the opening lines of Paradise Lost, John Milton claims that he will \"justify the methods of God to men,\" and this is an attempt to \"vindicate the ways of God to man\" (l.16) (1.26). It is focused on the natural order that God established for mankind. Man cannot protest about his place in the great chain of being since he cannot understand God's designs (ll. 33-34). Instead, he must accept that \"Whatever is, is right,\" a subject that Voltaire parodied in Candide (1759). It spread optimistic thought more broadly than any other book throughout England and the rest of Europe. Pope intended for his Essay on Man and Moral Epistles to serve as the constituent pieces of poetic ethical philosophy. Ethic Epistles and Moral Essays are a couple of additional names for Moral Epistles. An Essay on Man was widely praised when it was first published in Europe. 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It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe FICTION \u0026amp; PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. 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