Alexander Pope

by Yasmine Gooneratne

Although Pope's reputation as a poet has never been higher among scholars and academics, changes in our attitudes to the writing of poetry and to traditional literary values and fashions in versification have created barriers between his genius and the general reader. Pope's poetry has to struggle against the assumptions that verse two centuries ago, filled with allusions to forgotten myths and contemporary personalities, can have little to say that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521290511
• ISBN13: 9780521290517
• Release Date: September 1976
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"