Pope, Alexander

Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope (Riverside Editions ; B 59)

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"How far your genius, taste, and learning go...."
One of the best Pope editions

Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope (Riverside Editions ; B 59)
Alexander Pope
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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ASIN: 0395051568

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Except no subtitutes...I didn't!.......2004-07-09

I have had my copy of this edition since the late 1980s. It was the required book for a graduate class on Pope. However, I was taking the undergrad Age of Satire class, which required a lesser cheap pulp paperback, with less material, less notation etc. My professor was a little miffed I took the book away from one of his grad students (it was offered in the store, I guess they only ordered so many copies??). Anyway, I wonder how many of his then grad students are still refering and reading their copies, when I have poured over mine for over 15 years now. Dr. Mell if you are reading, it is not wasted. Very few writers have crossed the path of true genius like Pope has.

"How far your genius, taste, and learning go....".......2004-01-25

This Riverside Edition of the -Poetry and Prose of
Alexander Pope- published by Houghton Mifflin is an
excellent collection. For it contains complete works
from his earliest efforts (Pastorals written at the age
of 16) through the final Four Book complete version
of "The Dunciad" which he published in October 1743.
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 -- 30 May 1744) is the
middle representative of a great Triumvirate of
British literature encompassing the Neo-Classical
or Augustan Age. This period saw, at its best, writers
emulating the classical values and styles which they
found in the ancient works of Greece and Rome. Also,
as a result of the excellent educational backgrounds
which they received, writers desired to bring forth
English translations of those ancient Greek and Roman
writers. Pope brought out an excellent English
translation of Homer's -Iliad-. The other two
authors of the Triumvirate are John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
before Pope, and Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) after Pope.
The works included in this well-priced volume are:
Pastorals (with a Discourse on Pastoral Poetry); The
Episode of Sarpedon (from The Iliad); Sapho to Phaon;
An Essay on Criticism (complete); Messiah; Epistle to
Miss Blount, With the Works of Voiture; Windsor-Forest;
The Rape of the Lock (complete); Epistle to Mr. Jervas;
Eloise to Abelard; Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate
Lady; To Mr. Addison; An Essay on Man (complete); Epistles
to Several Persons: Richard Temple, To a Lady, Allen
Lord Bathurst, Richard Boyle; An Epistle to Dr.
Arbuthnot; Satires and Epistles of Horace Imitated
(First Satire, Second Book; Second Satire, Second
Book; Second Satire, First Book; Second Epistle,
Second Book; First Epistle, Second Book; Sixth
Epistle, First Book; First Epistle, First Book);
The Satires of Dr. John Donne, Versified (Second
Satire; Fourth Satire); Epilogue to the Satires
(Dialogue I; Dialogue II); The Dunciad, in Four
Books (complete); A Letter to the Publisher;
Martinus Scriblerus of the Poem; Book First,
Book Second, Book Third, Book Fourth); essay
in -The Guardian-, No. 40; Peri Bathous, or
The Art of Sinking in Poetry; Preface to the
Iliad; and Preface to the Works of Shakespear.
Pope, born a Roman Catholic and suffering a
tubercular infection of the spine in adolescence
which stunted his growth and gave him a hump-backed
appearance, was an outsider to the mainstream of
British life in one sense. Yet it gave him a
very good vantage from which to be able to critique
and satirize the people and events around him.
However, he is not simply the jabbering, acid-penned
"monkey" that many of his targets were all too prone
to counter-mock him as being. Pope was a highly
intelligent, thoughtful, reasonable (when not riled),
extremely well-read genius. And even though he bears
all the regalia of the Neo-Classical scholar and poet,

yet some of his views and feelings seem like the
forerunners of English Romanticism -- he favored the
natural, unsymmetrical English garden over the stylized,
pruned, sculpted, balanced Neo-Classical gardens of the
French.
No reader should be wary of the multiple lines of
poetry which may be encountered in Pope. Simply go
slowly -- think about what he is saying and enjoy
his intelligence, his reason, his classical learning,
and even his satirical thrusts.
-- Robert Kilgore.

One of the best Pope editions.......1999-04-30

This edition of Pope's work is very, very good. Included are all the major poems, a good selection of the minor poems, and some of Pope's best prose. Also, the edition is edited by Aubrey Williams, a Pope critic with genuine stature and ability, who knows Pope better than any of the editors of more recent editions. This book is an excellent selection for anyone looking for a one-volume edition of Pope.

The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)

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The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
Alexander Pope
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 019920361X

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This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Pope's poetry and prose - the major poems in their entirety, together with translations, criticism, letters and other prose - to give the essence of his work and thinking. Pope has often been termed the first truly professional poet in English, whose dealings with the book trade helped to produce the literary market-place of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this representative selection of Pope's most important work, the texts are presented in chronological sequence so that the Moral Essays and Imitations of Horace are restored to their original position in his career. The Dunciad, The Rape of the Lock, and Peri Bathous are presented in full, together with a characteristic sample of Pope's prose, including satires, pamphlets, and periodical writing. The influential preface to his edition of Shakespeare is here, as well as passages from his conversations with Joseph Spence and examples of his wide-ranging correspondence. This fine edition features a comprehensive biographical index, as well as an introduction and invaluable notes.

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Great stuff!.......2007-01-22

Opinions differ, with regard to Alexander Pope, but then again it's hard to find any subject at all where opinions do NOT differ!

I think that Pope was one of the most clever and skilled man who ever wrote verse in English, and that his verse rises pretty frequently to the level of poetry. His translation of "The Iliad" is probably immortal. I was surprised to learn that he farmed out the translation of "The Odyssey" to lesser lights: half of the books in the "Pope" translation of "The Odyssey" were, in fact, ghost-written!

If you have never read anything by Pope and want an introduction, then find yourself an easy chair, pour yourself something cordial to drink, and read the "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot." I never get tired of this minor masterpiece! ("Why break a butterfly upon the wheel?" is just one example. But I could cite the whole thing!)

Highest recommendation!

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The Iliad of Homer
Translated by Alexander Pope
Manufacturer: The Easton Press
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Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000BTSK8O

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Does not compare with others in the genre
Good for vacation reading
Lots of excitement in this book!
A really good British sailing navy Napoleonic War era novel.
Another Brit sails the hazardy seas!

Ramage (The Lord Ramage Novels)
Dudley Pope
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Ramage & the Drumbeat (The Lord Ramage Novels)
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Ramage & the Guillotine (The Lord Ramage Novels)

ASIN: 0935526765

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In a daring foray, under the very nose of the French Mediterranean fleet, Lieutenant Lord Nicholas Ramage is to sail his tiny cutter close in to the Italian shore and rescue a party of stranded aristocrats from Napoleon's fast-advancing army.

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Does not compare with others in the genre.......2007-01-10

I love great dialogue and clever plot twists. I love a rich, woven tapestry of historical events, daily life, nautical detail and nuance. I love multi-dimensional characters who speak and act always in ways entirely consistent with their personalites.

Unfortunately this book has none of these things. The characters are one dimensional despite cliched attempts and adding dimension. The dialogue is painfully stilted and the primary plot device is the thought balloon. It reads more like an outline or a first draft than a novel.

Comparing this book (I also read the second book to see if it improved - It most decidedly did not) to other Series of Nautical fiction I see it like this:

#1. Patrick O' brien - Brilliant. Great Dialogue, characters, plots, nuance, Nautical detail etc.

#2: C. S. Forester - Excellent but not quite as good as O'Brien.

#3: Alexander Kent - Not bad but definitely not up to the quality of the first two. Decent characters and plots. Good summer reading for the first 20 books or so but becomes a soap opera after that.

Dudley Pope is a far distant #4 on this list. If you have not read O'brien or Forester, please read them first. I won't buy another in this series. What a disappointment.

Good for vacation reading.......2006-12-01

Rather than reviewing this single book, I'll comment on the entire series. Pope's Ramage lacks the edge of O'Brian's Jack Aubrey and evolves less over the course of the series than Forseter's Hornblower. In short, the characterization of Ramage is less mature. Likewise, the writing itself is slightly ponderous at a number of points, with Pope feeling the need to remind the reader of a list of character traits and events in the protagonist's life that the reader of the entire series already has in mind. Pope does, however, give the reader a more robust set of recurring characters to enjoy reading about than dose Forester in his Hornblower series (who really only gives you two significant recurring characters other than Hornblower himself). Also, Pope's Ramage has nobility (both in title and in character) that O'Brian's Aubrey lacks and readers who prefer protagonists with greater moral clarity will find this appealing in Ramage. Pope also has sprinkled throughout the series a number of court martial scenes that are well done and entertaining. The series makes for good reading during vacations, business trips or during your daily train/subway/bus commute. A solid three stars. Suggest O'Brian's Master and Commander series and Forester's Hornblower novels as better over all reads if you enjoy the style of the Ramage books.

Lots of excitement in this book!.......2006-06-20

This book starts out right in the thick of battle! Plenty of good action here. Pope can tell a great story. The book is an easy read--not so much detail or naval jargon that the reader gets lost. This book reminds me a little of Hornblower, but Ramage, as both a book and character, is a LOT more interesting than Hornblower. Whereas Forester gives us some action and then 90 pages at the whist table, Pope gives us more action. Hornblower spends every moment lamenting his decision to marry Maria; Ramage thinks periodically about his Truelove, but it's quickly back to planning how to get out of the next scrape. Good action, good story, good reading. Highly recommended!

A really good British sailing navy Napoleonic War era novel........2006-03-14

If you like the O'Brian series of novels you'll like this one. This is just number one in Pope's series of Ramage novels so there are more to look forward to. I am glad of that since I have read all of the O'Brian novels including the latest unfinished one and have no more to look forward to now.

Another Brit sails the hazardy seas!.......2003-12-02

It was while reading Van Reid's funny historical adventures about the gentlemen's club, the Moosepath League, that I was led, by a communication with that author to James L. Nelson's "Revolution at Sea" saga. Even if Mr. Reid hadn't already made me laugh and shout with surprise at his unlikely heroes' exploits, I would be grateful to him for telling me about Mr. Nelson's writing. From the latest in the "RaS" series I began hunting for some more nautical adventures. The first thing I tried was Dewey Lambdin - not too bad. Now I come back after reading the first of Mr. Pope's Ramage novels (Where did he get *that* name?) to say that this guy is another good storyteller. I've said elsewhere that the British nautical hero has probably been done enough, but if you love a sea-story, they are the go to guys, I guess. Mr. Pope does it up pretty well - not quite as good a tale-spinner as Mr. Nelson, nor does he have such an original tale to spin, not quite as roguish as Mr. Lambdin, and certainly not the stylist that Forester was. But all in all, a solid entry in the lists and I will give the second in the series a read soon. It will hold me between Mr. Nelson's and Mr. Reid's next books.

The Rape of the Lock (Bedford Cultural Editions)

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The way literature should be done!
The ultimate "mock epic"
Brilliantly written with wit, style, and a flair for detail.

The Rape of the Lock (Bedford Cultural Editions)
Alexander Pope
Manufacturer: Bedford/St. Martin's
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ASIN: 0312115695

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This edition reprints the text of Pope's classic poem — both the five-canto 1714 version and the facsimilie of the original 1712 version — together with a broad selection of documents. Including correspondence, poems, broadsides, reviews, and parodies, the documents focus special attention on Pope's life and career as well as on eighteenth-century poetic traditions and innovations, social habits and assumptions, historical events, and political implications. A general introduction providing historical and cultural background, a chronology of Pope's life and times, an introduction to each thematic group of documents, headnotes, extensive annotations, a selected bibliography, and a generous collection of maps, portraits, and illustrations make this volume a unique scholarly edition of this classic work of eighteenth-century literature.

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The way literature should be done!.......2004-06-10

This review should be taken seriously considering I didn't really like "The Rape of the Lock" and still give this book 5 stars!

"History is not a vacuum," one of my university history professors always told us. Neither is literature for that matter! This book examines the mock-epic poem "Rape of the Lock" in its social, literary, and historical contexts. The poem takes up a small portion of the book, and the rest is made up of diary entries, letters, essays, newspapers, etc. that help to explain the culture surrounding Pope. The city of London, clothes, card games, coffee, makeup, social norms, and countless other things are discussed in very readable and enjoyable ways in order to make "The Rape of the Lock" truly come alive.

The ultimate "mock epic".......2003-08-06

This poem serves two purposes. First, Pope wrote it in response to an upper-class quarrel over an event at a party in which a young girl had her hair cut. The incident itself was petty and stupid, but the families of the parties involved were taking it very seriously. Pope, then, wrote this poem in epic form (the most grand of poetic forms) to show the absurdity of the matter, and thus reconcile the offender and offended.

That is the first function of this poem. Even though the incident is long forgotten, the poem is still very funny. But there is a greater purpose to this poem--it was written like an epic. It contains several epic elements--an epic battle (at the card game), the invocation of muses and gods, the epic quest (to cut the hair), and several literary devices, such as epic-length similes and catalogs. This is what makes this poem so great, and what serves as a testimony to Pope's remarkable genius for wit and satire.

Pope was, in my opinion, one of the greatest English poets, certainly the greatest satirist. This is one of his greatest works, and it is short enough to read over and over again without investing too much time.

Brilliantly written with wit, style, and a flair for detail........1998-07-16

This is a highly intelligent book on one of the finest poems by the eighteenth century's most celebrated poet. Brilliantly written with wit, style, and a flair for interesting detail, Wall's book includes textual information and a wealth of carefully selected secondary material that makes this "one-stop shopping" for anyone interested in the work or indeed in the period. Because of its combination of lively writing and scholarly erudition, I would recommend Wall's book for a wide variety of interest and knowledge levels. Wonderful Bedford series idea and terrific book.

The Poems of Alexander Pope: A reduced version of the Twickenham Text

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The most complete one-volume Pope available

The Poems of Alexander Pope: A reduced version of the Twickenham Text
Alexander Pope
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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ASIN: 0300000308

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The most complete one-volume Pope available.......1998-05-04

This one-volume reprint of all the authentic original poems of Alexander Pope, first published in 1963, derives from the Twickenham Edition, the recognized standard text of Pope's poetry. It is exhaustive, even down to containing early versions of lines like the verses on "Atticus" which ended up years later in the "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot," and reprints both the "Tibbald" and "Cibber" versions of the "Dunciad." It also has a great deal of useful editorial annotation, though not so much as to overwhelm or supplant Pope's own text and frequent notes. Highly recommended to all who love Pope's verse.

Essay on Man and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

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The classic master of English verse
Crown jewels in Pope's diadem

Essay on Man and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Alexander Pope
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ASIN: 0486280535

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Aside from the celebrated title poem — a survey of the nature of the universe and man's place in it — this collection features "The Rape of the Lock," "Ode on Solitude," "The Dying Christian to His Soul," "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady," "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" and more.

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The classic master of English verse.......2005-04-29

Pope is the great master of polished English verse. He is the most skilled craftsman, perhaps, that the language has known. "Like the alexandrine that drags its slow length along" Pope everywhere illustrates a mastery of form as feeling. Yet precisely his precision and his intellect are what make the verse less than deeply appealing to a poor romantic soul such as myself. Pope can be a master moralist ( Vice is a monster of such frightful mien/ that to be hated needs but to be seen/ but seen too oft/ familiar with her face/ we first endure, then pity, then embrace./ And he can hold up the mirror to man and nature in a way that inspires rational hope. He can play and mock at us ( I am his master's dog at Kew, pray tell me, Sir whose dog are you?) but he does not reach the deepest down nature that the Romantics that come after will.
This fine collection contains his most famous poems " The Rape of the Lock" and "The Essay on Man' and the reader can know through this work the best of Pope. But whether the best of Pope belongs in the same league with Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, Keats, Wordsworth, is another question.

Crown jewels in Pope's diadem.......2002-03-25

Pope's defining masterworks, "Essay on Man" and "The Rape of the Lock", are crystalizations of the 18th Century's defining impulses. The "Essay on Man" proselytizes on behalf of the deistic belief in an ordered, rational universe where humankind is no divine favorite but can understand its place on the Great Chain of Being and find happiness through knowledge and acceptance. Most will join with Voltaire in his hearty rejection of the doctrine "Whatever is, is right," yet it is impossible to deny the ennobling quality of Pope's optimism:
"Grasp the whole worlds of reason, life, and sense,
In one close system of benevolence:
Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree,
And height of bliss but height of charity."
Where "Essay on Man" expresses the rational principles of the Enlightenment, "The Rape of the Lock" exemplifies the love of the frivolous, the fashionable, and the feminine which gave such light and warmth to an era famed for its elevation of the intellect. The poem exemplifies the Rococo, that most playful of styles in literature; nowhere else in English lit does so much of the spirit of Boucher come through. Pope's verse swirls and sparkles in melodic luxuriance, his creamy couplets smooth and shapely as a woman's legs.
This compact edition also includes the "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady", one of the most beautifully severe (and overlooked) poems in the language-- a rare triumph of Neo-Classical lyric. Here also are the famous "Essay on Criticism", the galloping satire of the "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot", Epistle IV of the "Moral Essays", the "Ode on Solitude" and "The Dying Christian to His Soul", and the famed little epigram from a dog's collar-- all magnificent, all of them compact and gracious in expression, articulate and penetrating in thought. The serious devotee of Pope will want to go on to the treasures (and scholarly annotations) of the Twickenham edition, but this is a terrific anthology of some indispensable works from this controversial and indispensable genius.

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The Iliad (Dodo Press)
Homer
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Large format paper back for easy reading. Homer's epic and bloody story of the Trojan Wars

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An Essay On Man In Four Epistles
Alexander Pope
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ASIN: 1419106414

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Look Round Our World; Behold The Chain Of Love Combining All Below And All Above. See Plastic Nature Working To This End, The Single Atoms Each To Other Tend, Attract, Attracted To, The Next In Place Form'd And Impell'd Its Neighbour To Embrace.

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The Dunciad
Alexander Pope
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