The Dunciad
Title | The Dunciad PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Pope |
Publisher | The Floating Press |
Total Pages | 63 |
Release | 2016-10-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 177667183X |
Fans of literary lampoonery will delight in the no-holds-barred, scorched-earth satire that British poet Alexander Pope unleashes in his witty masterpiece, The Dunciad. Disgusted by the teeming waves of self-proclaimed "writers" who emerged in search of a quick buck when the growing availability of cheaply printed books made sentimental stories popular with the public, Pope took it upon himself to put these hacks in their place in an epic poem lambasting their dullness and lack of refinement.
The English Poets
Title | The English Poets PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Humphry Ward |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 694 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | English poetry |
ISBN |
The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope PDF eBook |
Author | Pat Rogers |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2007-12-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139827324 |
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.
Centrism Games: A Modern Dunciad
Title | Centrism Games: A Modern Dunciad PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Fulton Brown |
Publisher | Dcr Books |
Total Pages | 94 |
Release | 2021-03-21 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 9780578870816 |
Chivalry is dead. These knights want Fame. And Fama's a witch. Follow a band of very different Knights on their quest to become the most balanced, the most tolerant, the most compromising of everyone on the modern political spectrum. Each knight dares to liberalize and conserve, but who will win the ultimate prize and stay safely in the centre? A cautionary tale in heroic couplets modeled on Alexander Pope's scathing 18th-century Dunciad.
Poetry
Title | Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Pope |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 562 |
Release | 1881 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings
Title | The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Pope |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Total Pages | 566 |
Release | 2011-06-30 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0141946296 |
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) 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 'The Rape of the Lock', which satirizes a notorious society scandal through glorious heroic couplets, the brilliantly aphoristic 'An Essay on Criticism' and excerpts from his translation of the Iliad. Later poems represented include Pope's ironic adaptations of Horace's Epistles, Satires and Odes, and the remarkable 'Dunciad', 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.
The Dunciad
Title | The Dunciad PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Pope |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1743 |
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