Poems Alexander Pope - Couverture souple

Alexander Pope; John Everett Butt

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0300000308 ISBN 13 : 9780300000306

Editeur : Yale University Press, 1977

Synopsis

A splendid presentation of Pope's poems, excluding only his translations of Homer, this is the only one-volume edition that can lay claim to completeness and accuracy of text. It presents the corpus of Pope's poetry as printed in the highly praised Twickenham Edition, except for the 1712 version of The Rape of the Lock and other early versions of phrases preserved in the critical apparatus of the six-volume work. Pope's own notes to his poems are included, as well as a generous selection of the copious annotation in the Twickenham text. This reduced version of the unsurpassed standard edition of Pope will be of great value to all students and teachers of English literature. John Butt, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh University, is general editor of the Twickenham Edition. "The publishers are surely right in claiming that 'this should for long remain the standard one-volume edition of Pope's poems.' The Twichenham edition ...has been a splendid achievement, and Professor Butt's distillation of the long labours of his fellow-editors is most commendable."-Times Literary Supplement.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets selection of the works of Alexander Pope, the greatest English poet of his age.

After Shakespeare, Alexander Pope is the third-most-quoted poet in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations; he is the source of such immortal gems as "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread," "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing," and "To err is human, to forgive, divine." Celebrated for his incisive satires, most famously "The Rape of the Lock" and "The Dunciad," and for his philosophical verse, including the monumental "An Essay on Man," Pope united irony and wit with deep insight into human nature. Furthermore, his moral vision clothed itself in unparalleled technical excellence; Pope perfected the form of the heroic couplet and gave us a translation of Homer that is a lasting work of art in its own right. This anthology presents a pocket-sized selection of the best work of this major poet.

Biographie de l'auteur :

ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744) was an eighteenth-century English poet known for his satirical verse, for his translation of Homer, and for his use of the heroic couplet. Among his best-known works are "The Rape of the Lock," "An Essay on Criticism," and "The Dunciad."
CLAUDE RAWSON is a professor of English at Yale University. He is the author of several books on eighteenth-century writers, as well as numerous articles and reviews in academic journals and in the Times Literary Supplement, New York Times Book Review, and London Review of Books.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0300000308
• ISBN 13: 9780300000306
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 880