Author: Valerie Rumbold
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040289363
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Alexander Pope (1688–1744) is one of the greatest poets in European literature, comparable to the likes of likes of Shakespeare, Chaucer, Keats and Wordsworth. He is not easy to read though: his poetry uses dense literary and contemporary contextual allusions. This is why a book that gets the readers to the meaning of his poetry as painlessly as possible is so important. This volume features the complete text of Pope’s most significant poem, The Dunciad. The first-rate annotations that accompany this edition of the poem provide information on matters of interpretation and give details of allusions that might prove baffling to the contemporary reader.
Author: Thomas Parnell
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874131543
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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This edition is the first to establish a reliable text of the poems of Thomas Parnell (1679-1718). Based on a study of all the available manuscripts, including an extensive collection in the poet's family, and authoritative edition, it more than doubles the number of poems known to be Parnell's and represents the first publication of some of his works.
Author: J. McLaverty
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198184973
Category : Authors and publishers
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Throughout his life, Pope was fascinated by print. He loved its elements: dropped heads, italics, small capitals; fine paper and good ink; headpieces, tailpieces, initials, and plates. And he loved playing games with publication: anonymity, pseudonymity, false imprints, fake title-pages,advertisements, special editions, and variant texts.This is the first study to take Pope's experiments in print as a guide to interpretation. Each chapter is devoted to a particular book or text and focuses on how Pope expresses meaning through print. The Rape of the Lock, Dunciad Variorum, Essay on Man, early imitations of Horace, and Epistle to DrArbuthnot are read through their illustrations, annotations, parallel texts, title-pages, and revisions. Independent chapters are devoted to Pope's Works of 1717 and 1735-6, discussing his self-presentation and his relation to his readers. He emerges from the study as a figure marginalized socially,politically, and sexually, an author who gambles with his private life in confronting his opponents.
Author: Reginald Harvey Griffith
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Author: Joseph Hone
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198842317
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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Explores Alexander Pope's early career as a literary author, and provides a transformative account of the eighteenth century poet.
Author: Margaret M. Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1847143091
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 679
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Eleven authors are included in this final part of Volume III of the Index, beginning with Laurence Sterne and concluding with Edward Young. It also includes the final cumulative first-line index of all the verse which is described in the manuscript entries or mentioned in the Introductions in Parts 1-4 of Volume III.
Author: Reginald Harvey Griffith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Author: Wells, Edgar H. & Co
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
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Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Author: Barbara M. Benedict
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691193975
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Inquiring into the formation of a literary canon during the Restoration and the eighteenth century, Barbara Benedict poses the question, "Do anthologies reflect or shape contemporary literary taste?" She finds that there was a cultural dialectic at work: miscellanies and anthologies transmitted particular tastes while in turn being influenced by the larger culture they helped to create. Benedict reveals how anthologies of the time often created a consensus of literary and aesthetic values by providing a bridge between the tastes of authors, editors, printers, booksellers, and readers. Making the Modern Reader, the first full treatment of the early modern anthology, is in part a history of the London printing trade as well as of the professionalization of criticism. Benedict thoroughly documents the historical redefinition of the reader: once a member of a communal literary culture, the reader became private and introspective, morally and culturally shaped by choices in reading. She argues that eighteenth-century collections promised the reader that culture could be acquired through the absorption of literary values. This process of cultural education appealed to a middle class seeking to become discriminating consumers of art. By addressing this neglected genre, Benedict contributes a new perspective on the tension between popular and high culture, between the common reader and the elite. This book will interest scholars working in cultural studies and those studying noncanonical texts as well as eighteenth-century literature in general. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
