The Enduring Legacy: Alexander Pope Tercentenary Essays

by Edited by G. S. Rousseau , Pat Rogers

• ISBN13: 9780521180856
• ISBN10: 0521180856
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Originally published in 1988, this Anglo-American collaborative volume, which appeared during the 300th anniversary of Alexander Pope's birth in 1688, brings together contributions from a large number of the most outstanding scholars in the field of Pope studies. It is a comprehensive collective survey of the poet's life and work. The essays centre on his poetry, while his life and reputation, his translations and relation to the classical world, and his attitudes to women are also discussed. There is a section on landscape gardening and the villa at Twickenham, and another on Pope and posterity. A diversity of approaches is represented, but with recurrent themes and a general awareness of Pope's place in the contemporary literary context. A major landmark in Pope studies, this book provided a well-judged assessment, while affirming and extending the poet's standing.

Table of Contents

List of plates

Notes on contributors

Preface

Abbreviations

The Rape of the Lock:

Virgins visited by angel powers: The Rape of the Lock, platonick love, sylphs and some mysticks

The Rape of the Lock and the contexts of warfare

Pope and Women:

'Dipt in the rainbow': Pope on women

Engendering the reader: 'Wit and Poetry and Pope' once more

An Essay on Man:

Pope on the origins of society

Pope and the arts of pleasure

Landscape Gardening and the Villa at Twickenham:

Pope, Kent and 'Palladian' gardening

The iconography of Pope's villa: images of poetic fame

Pope and Translation and Criticism:

Moving cities: Pope as translator and transposer

The genius of Pope's genius: criticism and the text(s)

Pope and Posterity:

'Wholesome country air': Pope, Pushkin and other

Pope and the tradition in modern humanistic education: '...; in the pale of Words till death'

An anatomy of Pope-bashing

Index

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