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The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)

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by: Alexander Pope See Larger Image List Price: $18.95 Amazon.com's Price: $12.89 You Save: $6.06 (32%) as of 11/22/2009 00:22 EST Used Price: $10.50 Third Party New Price: $11.19 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 821.5 EAN: 9780199537617 Edition: Reissue ISBN: 0199537615 Label: Oxford University Press, USA Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 768 Publication Date: March 15, 2009 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Studio: Oxford University Press, USA Related Items: Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) Samuel Johnson: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) William Wordsworth - The Major Works: including The Prelude (Oxford World's Classics) The Beggar's Opera (Penguin Classics) see more Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Alexander Pope has often been termed the first true professional poet in English, whose dealings with the book trade helped to produce the literary marketplace 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. This edition represents the single most comprehensive anthology of Pope's works. The Duncaid, The Rape of the Lock, and Imitations of Horace are presented in full, together with a characteristic sample of Pope's prose, including satires, pamphlets, and periodical writing. This edition also includes a further reading list, an invaluable biographical index as well as indexes of titles, first lines, and correspondences. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - The 18th Century's Greatest "Learned Wit" Dr. Pat Rogers, editor of this particular edition, often describes Alexander Pope as the first professional writer in the English language. Indeed, there is something highly polished in the prose and poetry of Pope, a self-awareness of the art unfolding before you. Those seeking a single "compact" edition of Pope's major works would do well to purchase this book. Dr. Rogers's careful editing, wonderful introduction, and in-depth scholarly notes are of sustained importance for the neophyte reader. ... Read More Rating: - Great stuff! 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 ... Read More

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