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Pope Urban VIII and Pope Alexander VII: Selected Poetry - Lyrical Musings of Two Baroque Pontiffs by Pope Urban VIII; Pope Alexander VII; Robert Nixon (Translator)
Category: Poetry
Urban VIII and Alexander VII each occupied the papal throne during the seventeenth century, and were munificent and discriminating patrons of the arts, as well as men of conspicuous erudition and imagination. They were also sensitive, inspired, and highly accomplished poets. The cultural milieu from whi ...Show more
Scriblerus by Alexander Pope
Category: Fiction
Alexander Pope was, at one time, the world's most celebrated poet. His trenchant satirical works - in which the foibles of all the critics, hacks and bad poets of his day are exploded - and his masterful heroi-comic poem The Rape of the Lock continue to inspire generations of writers and readers to this ...Show more
The Art of Sinking in Poetry by Alexander Pope
Category: Poetry
Written in 1727, The Art of Sinking in Poetry was one of Alexander Pope's contributions to the literary output of the legendary Scriblerus club – a circle of writers dedicated to mocking what they perceived as a culture of mediocrity and false learning prevalent in the arts and sciences of their day. Ta ...Show more
The Iliad of Homer by Steven (EDT) Alexander (TRN); Shankman Homer; Pope
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
The Odyssey by Homer; Alexander Pope
Category: Classics
One of the two major ancient Greek epics-and one of the most popular stories of all time-Homer's Odyssey has been a classic of Western literature for centuries. This translation into spare, elegant blank verse, is certain to attract the same praise and admiration as Herbert Jordan's previous rendition o ...Show more
The Odyssey Slipcase by Homer; Alexander Pope; John Flaxman (Illustrator)
Category: Classic Fiction
'Muse, tell me of a man: a man of much resource, who was made to wander far and long, after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy. Many were the men whose lands he saw and came to know their thinking: many too the miseries at sea which he suffered in his heart, as he sought to win his own life and the s ...Show more
The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A hideous crime is committed at a fashionable London society gathering. The victim is the beautiful, innocent Belinda, her attacker is the dastardly Baron, and his weapon of choice is a pair of scissors...Pope's mock-epic is the sharp and witty tale of the most famous bad hair day in the history of lite ...Show more
The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings by Alexander Pope; Leo Damrosch (Introduction by, Editor, Notes by)
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings is a collection of Alexander Pope's greatest works, edited with an introduction by Leo Damrosch in Penguin Classics. Alexander Pope was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights into human nature have entered the language, and whose verse ...Show more
The Rape of the Lock and a Key to the Lock by Alexander Pope
Category: Classic Fiction
When Lord Petre had the effrontery of cutting off a lock of Lady Arabella Fermor's hair, a veritable war erupted between the two noble families. A mutual friend, saddened by their estrangement, asked Alexander Pope, then a young poet, to write a poem about it, in order to make a joke of it and "laugh th ...Show more
The Rape of the LockA Heroicomical Poem in Five Cantos ; And, A Key to the Lock by Alexander Pope
Category: Fiction
An ingenious satire of the battle of the sexes and the follies of a self-centred young lady, The Rape of the Lock, together with its mock-interpretation A Key to the Lock, is in fact a subtle commentary on the contemporary social world and high-society preoccupations, and a cleverly veiled proposal for ...Show more
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