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The Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope (The Complete Critical Guides to English Literature) (edit title/settings)

by Paul Baines (Author) (edit contributors)

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What can a study of Pope tell us about the eighteenth century? Was Pope the poet of reason, or an anti-establishment prophet? So many questions surround the key figures in the English literary canon, but most books focus on one aspect of an author's life or work, or limit themselves to a... read more

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Because Pope was not primarily a lyric poet like Donne, or an explorer of private mental experience like Wordsworth, we tend to think of him as essentially a public voice, the satirist of civil follies rather than the analyst of personal emotions.

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