Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts: History, Politics, and Mythology in the Age of Queen Anne

by Pat Rogers

This radical new look at the literary and political climate of England during the reign of Queen Anne examines the work of the greatest poet of the age, Alexander Pope. Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts provides the fullest contextual account to date of Windsor-Forest (1713), widely seen as a key text in the evolution of early eighteenth-century poetry. It examines the poem's topical and political aspects and offers a reconfiguration of Pope's early...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199274398
• ISBN13: 9780199274390
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"