Author: Joseph Hone
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198842317
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Explores Alexander Pope's early career as a literary author, and provides a transformative account of the eighteenth century poet.
Alexander Pope in the Making
Author: Joseph Hone
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198842317
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Explores Alexander Pope's early career as a literary author, and provides a transformative account of the eighteenth century poet.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198842317
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Explores Alexander Pope's early career as a literary author, and provides a transformative account of the eighteenth century poet.
The Poet and the Publisher
Author: Pat Rogers
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789144191
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
“Drawing on deep familiarity with the period and its personalities, Rogers has given us a witty and richly detailed account of the ongoing war between the greatest poet of the eighteenth century and its most scandalous publisher.”—Leo Damrosch, author of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age “What sets Rogers’s history apart is his ability to combine fastidious research with lucid, unpretentious prose. History buffs and literary-minded readers alike are in for a punchy, drama-filled treat.”—Publishers Weekly The quarrel between the poet Alexander Pope and the publisher Edmund Curll has long been a notorious episode in the history of the book, when two remarkable figures with a gift for comedy and an immoderate dislike of each other clashed publicly and without restraint. However, it has never, until now, been chronicled in full. Ripe with the sights and smells of Hanoverian London, The Poet and Publisher details their vitriolic exchanges, drawing on previously unearthed pamphlets, newspaper articles, and advertisements, court and government records, and personal letters. The story of their battles in and out of print includes a poisoning, the pillory, numerous instances of fraud, and a landmark case in the history of copyright. The book is a forensic account of events both momentous and farcical, and it is indecently entertaining.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789144191
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
“Drawing on deep familiarity with the period and its personalities, Rogers has given us a witty and richly detailed account of the ongoing war between the greatest poet of the eighteenth century and its most scandalous publisher.”—Leo Damrosch, author of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age “What sets Rogers’s history apart is his ability to combine fastidious research with lucid, unpretentious prose. History buffs and literary-minded readers alike are in for a punchy, drama-filled treat.”—Publishers Weekly The quarrel between the poet Alexander Pope and the publisher Edmund Curll has long been a notorious episode in the history of the book, when two remarkable figures with a gift for comedy and an immoderate dislike of each other clashed publicly and without restraint. However, it has never, until now, been chronicled in full. Ripe with the sights and smells of Hanoverian London, The Poet and Publisher details their vitriolic exchanges, drawing on previously unearthed pamphlets, newspaper articles, and advertisements, court and government records, and personal letters. The story of their battles in and out of print includes a poisoning, the pillory, numerous instances of fraud, and a landmark case in the history of copyright. The book is a forensic account of events both momentous and farcical, and it is indecently entertaining.
The Rape of the Lock
Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
The Artist and the Eternal City
Author: Loyd Grossman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643137417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This brilliant vignette of seventeenth-century Rome, its Baroque architecture, and its relationship to the Catholic Church brings to life the friendship between a genius and his patron with an ease of writing that is rare in art history. By 1650, the spiritual and political power of the Catholic Church was shattered. Thanks to the twin blows of the Protestant Reformation and the Thirty Years War, Rome—celebrated both as the Eternal City and Caput Mundi (the head of the world)—had lost its preeminent place in Europe. Then a new Pope, Alexander VII, fired with religious zeal, political guile, and a mania for creating new architecture, determined to restore the prestige of his church by making Rome the key destination for Europe's intellectual, political, and cultural elite. To help him do so, he enlisted the talents of Gianlorenzo Bernini, already celebrated as the most important living artist—no mean feat in the age of Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velazquez.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643137417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This brilliant vignette of seventeenth-century Rome, its Baroque architecture, and its relationship to the Catholic Church brings to life the friendship between a genius and his patron with an ease of writing that is rare in art history. By 1650, the spiritual and political power of the Catholic Church was shattered. Thanks to the twin blows of the Protestant Reformation and the Thirty Years War, Rome—celebrated both as the Eternal City and Caput Mundi (the head of the world)—had lost its preeminent place in Europe. Then a new Pope, Alexander VII, fired with religious zeal, political guile, and a mania for creating new architecture, determined to restore the prestige of his church by making Rome the key destination for Europe's intellectual, political, and cultural elite. To help him do so, he enlisted the talents of Gianlorenzo Bernini, already celebrated as the most important living artist—no mean feat in the age of Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velazquez.
An Essay on Man
Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
An Essay on Criticism ...
Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
The Major Works
Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199537615
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
First published with revisions as an Oxford World's Classics paperback: 2006.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199537615
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
First published with revisions as an Oxford World's Classics paperback: 2006.
Life of Pope
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Anniversary Essays on Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock'
Author: Don Nichol
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442669683
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Alexander Pope’s heroi-comical, mock-epic poem, The Rape of the Lock, continues to sparkle after three hundred years as a peerless gem in the canon of English literature. In celebration of its tercentenary, this collection brings together ten eminent scholars with new perspectives on the poem. Their approaches reflect the vast range of interpretation of Pope’s text, from discussions of religion, gender, and eighteenth-century biological science to an interview with Sophie Gee about her novelization of the poem in The Scandal of the Season. These stimulating analyses will be essential reading for students and teachers of The Rape of the Lock and a valuable resource for investigating eighteenth-century culture.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442669683
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Alexander Pope’s heroi-comical, mock-epic poem, The Rape of the Lock, continues to sparkle after three hundred years as a peerless gem in the canon of English literature. In celebration of its tercentenary, this collection brings together ten eminent scholars with new perspectives on the poem. Their approaches reflect the vast range of interpretation of Pope’s text, from discussions of religion, gender, and eighteenth-century biological science to an interview with Sophie Gee about her novelization of the poem in The Scandal of the Season. These stimulating analyses will be essential reading for students and teachers of The Rape of the Lock and a valuable resource for investigating eighteenth-century culture.
War Music
Author: Christopher Logue
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571209071
Category : Achilles (Greek mythology)
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
This text contains the first three volumes of Christopher Logue's recomposition of Homer's Iliad - Kings, The Husbands and War Music.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571209071
Category : Achilles (Greek mythology)
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
This text contains the first three volumes of Christopher Logue's recomposition of Homer's Iliad - Kings, The Husbands and War Music.