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ALEXANDER POPE: SELECTED LETTERS
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Alexander Pope, Howard Erskine-Hill (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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ISBN 10: |
0198185650 |
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9780198185659 |
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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
29 June, 2000 |
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432 |
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Pope's letters reveal the life, colour, personalities, and ideas of his time. They show his poetry in the making, and they also show Pope in the process of fashioning his own life. This selection features especially some of the letters that he revised and re-directed before publishing them himself. It also includes many recently discovered letters, here collected for the first time, which throw new light on his character, relationships, and taste. The first selectionof Pope's correspondence for nearly fifty years, this volume also provides an introduction, detailed commentary, and biographical index. |
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Pope's letters are fascinating documents, apart from his importance as a poet. Highly revealing of his remarkable character-ambitious, dangerous, trimming, ridiculous, intelligent, generous yet antagonistic-they also comprise a body of writing of extraordinary interest for an understanding of his times: its personalities, its plots, its tragedies and exiles, its loves, its scandals, the movement of its religious, political, and philosophical ideas, its sense of poetry, and its notions of poetic craft and genre. Moreover, Pope published a collection of his own letters: a selective and highly edited collection, in which (having retrieved the originals from some recipients) he revised their texts and on occasion claimed they had been written to other people. This came to light with the nineteenth-century discovery of transcripts of the original letters, made for Pope's correspondent Lord Caryll. Other letters preserved in the British Library's Homer MS are clearly ones the poet would not have chosen to keep, since he used their backs for drafts of his Iliad translation.George Sherburn's scholarly five-volume Collected Correspondence (Oxford, 1956) is the necessary basis for any new edition. The collection presented here is in the first place a balanced and varied selection from Sherburn. Since 1956, however, many new letters have been discovered, and this volume includes most of them. Many are among Pope's best, though they have till now been scattered in learned journals. This selection supplies an introduction, a commentary on each letter identifying allusions and quotations (with translations where necessary), and thematic and biographical indexes. |
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frontispiece, 4 halftones |
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UK |
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Oxford University Press |
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