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Title	:	The Major Works
Author	:	Alexander Pope
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Oxford World's Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 737 pages
Published	:	March 1st 2009 by Oxford University Press (first published 1751)
Categories	:	Poetry. Literature. Classics. Fiction. Philosophy. 18th Century. European Literature. British Literature

The Major Works Paperback | Pages: 737 pages

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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.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Original Title:	Poetical Works
ISBN:	0199537615 (ISBN13: 9780199537617)
Edition Language:	English

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There's still no one who's really managed to improve on Pope. For example: Now Wits gain praise by copying other WitsAs one Hog lives on what another shits. It's amazing how often I think of that couplet. Maybe I shouldn't spend so much time on Goodreads.

Rape of the Lock: An interesting, strange story, but with lots of different possible meanings which I look forward to dissecting later on. A bit misogynistic. Earl of Burlington: quite relevant to modern views as he praises the beauty of nature over the man-made, however still filled with misogyny.Epistle to a Lady: ugh. We get it. He doesn't like women. Basically Swift's Dressing Room, but goes a little deeper.

Thoroughly enjoyable.

Who am I to criticize an author who, according to the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations is the third most quoted figure in human history (after Shakespeare and Tennyson)? Who am I but an unappreciative boor? Well, Im a generally educated reader who invested several weeks of reading time to explore the man and his writingno more, no less. Judge the merit of my comments for yourself, keeping in mind a rule that I apply to others so must apply to myself here: when you choose to emphasize the negative

Pope was one of the Enlightenment's geniuses. Few poets since have rivalled him for accuracy and sense.A few of his phrases that have entered the English idiom:"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread""Damn with faint praise""A little learning is a dangerous thing"

Pope peak smarmy, to get a balance of smarmy with something interesting see Horatian satires & Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot. Yes, objectively better than Swift but not as cool.