The Works of Alexander Pope - Poetry

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, Continental European, British & Irish, American

• Author: Alexander Pope
• ISBN: 1230002913551
• Publisher: GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS
• Publication: November 24, 2018
• Language: English

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Synopsis:
Alexander Pope (1688-1744), “English poet and satirist, literary dictator of his age and regarded as the epitome of English Neoclassicism…[His] best-known works include An Essay on Criticism [1711], which made him famous at the age of twenty-three; The Rape of the Lock [1714, a mock-heroic poem often considered the best in the English language]…translations of the Iliad [1720] and the Odyssey [1726]; an edition of Shakespeare (1725); The Dunciad [1728, the ‘dunce-epic,’ a satire in heroic couplets]…and An Essay on Man [1733-1734, his best-known poem, written in heroic couplets]”