Collected Poems of Alexander Pope

by Alexander Pope, Neil Azevedo (Editor)

Overview

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is widely considered to be the best poet of the Augustan age, and perhaps English verse's best satirist ever. This edition collects all of his major work, and most of his minor and early poetry as well.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151082754
Publisher:	William Ralph Press
Publication date:	07/01/2015
Series:	The Reader's Library , #12
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	184,296
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

English poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was mostly self-taught having been denied a formal protestant education because of his family’s Roman Catholic beliefs; he also suffered from the effects of Pott’s disease his entire life, which left him deformed and of small stature never growing past the height of four feet six inches. Despite these challenges, Pope flourished in English society and was likely its first professional literary writer having garnered significant income from the sales of books to the public as opposed to traditional patronages, capitalizing mostly on his excellent translations of Homer and an edited edition of Shakespeare. A close friend of Jonathan Swift in their famous Scriblerus Club, he was quite famous in his time, and while his reputation declined in the 19th century, he is now considered the most canonical poet of his era and the true master of the heroic couplet (followed closely by his predecessor, John Dryden) and English poetic satire.