The Garden and the City: Retirement and Politics in the Later Poetry of Pope 1731-1743

by Maynard Mack

In his preface Maynard Mack writes, "Criticism in the case of literary figures is never entirely separable from literary history and biography; yet it is more or less separable, and the merit of this book, if it has any, lies in the two latter areas. If I am judged to be right about the profoundly political orientation of most of Pope's poems of the 17]30's and about there being a certain emblematic quality in his way of life at Twickenham whose...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487577419
• ISBN13: 9781487577414
• Release Date: December 1969
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"