The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope

By: Pat Rogers

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521549442
• ISBN13: 9780521549448
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 8.9"