'Wit's Wild Dancing Light': Reading the Poems of Alexander Pope

by William Hutchings

Book Overview

Wit's Wild Dancing Light acts as a highly useful entry point for readers who are encountering Pope for the first time and also contains much illuminating material for those who are already familiar with his poetry.

-Dr Ian Calvert, University of Bristol

The book is a chronological reading of Alexander Pope's poems, from the Pastorals (1709) to the four-book Dunciad (1743). Each of the 26 chapters forming the volume selects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800643012
• ISBN13: 9781800643017
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Open Book Publishers
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"