The Rape Of Lock And Other Major Writings Alexander Pope Penguin Classics Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Poetry

The Rape Of Lock And Other Major Writings Is A Collection Alexander Pope\ S Greatest Works Edited With An Introduction By Leo Damrosch In Penguin Classics Pope Was English Poet His Age Whose Acerbic Insights Into Human Nature Have Entered Language Verse Still Astonishes Its Energy Inventiveness Centuries After Death This New Selection Work Follows Path Poetic Genius Over Lifetime It Contains Early Poems Including Masterly Mock-Epic \ Lock\ Which Satirizes Notorious Society Scandal Through Glorious Heroic Couplets Brilliantly Aphoristic Essay On Criticism\ Excerpts From Translation Iliad Later Represented Include Ironic Adaptations Horace\ Epistles Satires Odes Remarkable Dunciad\ Stinging Attack Literary Rivals Mediocrity Grub Street Hacks Here Too Are Selected Prose Letters To Contemporaries Such As John Gay Jonathan Swift Edition Wide-Ranging That Elucidates Life Art Contemporary Contexts Well Separate Introductions Each Piece Chronology Further Reading Biography Extensive Notes (1688-1744) Born London 1688 Son Well-To-Do Roman Catholic Cloth Merchant 1709 He Launched Career Set Four Pastorals Followed Criticism Windsor Forest Cemented Reputation Included Dunciad Several Persons Ambitious Man If You Enjoyed Might Like Swift\ Gulliver\ Travels Also Available Σελίδες: 528 Διαστάσεις: 13X13Cm