By Pat Rogers
Alexander Pope used to be the best poet of his age and the dominant impact on eighteenth-century British poetry. His huge oeuvre, written over a thirty-year interval, encompasses satires, odes and political verse and displays the sexual, ethical and cultural problems with the area round him, frequently in fantastic strains and words that have develop into a part of our language at the present time. this is often the 1st review to examine the entire variety of Pope's paintings and to set it in its historic and cultural context. in particular commissioned essays through prime students discover all of Pope's significant works, together with the sexual politics of The Rape of the Lock, the philosophical enquiries of An Essay on guy and the ethical Essays, and the mock-heroic of The Dunciad in its quite a few kinds. This quantity should be critical not just for college students and students of Pope's paintings, but in addition for all these attracted to the Augustan age.
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The insights of this essay provide a useful overlap with some of those found in the next section of the volume. This concerns Pope’s dealings with the publishing industry of his time, a topic revolutionized by David Foxon’s study, Pope and the Early Eighteenth-Century Book Trade (1991). The work of editing Foxon’s lectures for the press fell to James McLaverty, a leading authority in the area, and author of Pope, Print, and Meaning (2001). In his essay for this volume he examines the history of Pope’s contacts with publishers such as Jacob Tonson, Bernard Lintot, and Edmund Curll, and discusses the means by which Pope was able to achieve a situation of power within the book industry, unparalleled by any previous writer (and by very few in the succeeding three hundred years).
Is allready condemn’d here and the malice & juggle at Buttons is the conversation of those who have spare moments from Politicks” (Corr, i, p. 294). Addison died in 1719, but Pope’s revenge was long and slow. Sixteen years later he contrived, through a network of intermediaries, to leak letters 29 dav i d n o k e s to the pirate publisher Edmund Curll, in order to justify following up with a “corrected” version of his own correspondence in which several letters were revised, re-assigned or fabricated.
47). The world might rebuke him as a dangerously impulsive “man of mercury” but for Pope, Bolingbroke remained an heroic figure living the life of virtue. After Bolingbroke it was Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester and leader of the English Jacobites, who was captured and imprisoned following the failed conspiracy of 1722. Walpole engineered a show trial for him in the House of Lords at which Pope gave evidence for which he considered his own residence in England might be ended. He wrote to Atterbury in the Tower that he was “every day less and less fond of it,” considering “a friend in exile” like “a friend in death, one gone before where I am not unwilling, nor unprepared to follow” (Corr, ii, p.