The Rape of the Lock |
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Author:
| Pope, Alexander |
Editor:
| Wall, Cynthia |
Series title: | Bedford Cultural Editions Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-312-11569-2 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1997 |
Publisher: | Bedford/Saint Martin's
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $13.50USD $16.99 |
Book Description:
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This edition reprints the text of Pope's classic poem — both the five-canto 1714 version and the facsimilie of the original 1712 version — together with a broad selection of documents. Including correspondence, poems, broadsides, reviews, and parodies, the documents focus special attention on Pope's life and career as well as on eighteenth-century poetic traditions and innovations, social habits and assumptions, historical events, and political implications. A general...
More DescriptionThis edition reprints the text of Pope's classic poem — both the five-canto 1714 version and the facsimilie of the original 1712 version — together with a broad selection of documents. Including correspondence, poems, broadsides, reviews, and parodies, the documents focus special attention on Pope's life and career as well as on eighteenth-century poetic traditions and innovations, social habits and assumptions, historical events, and political implications. A general introduction providing historical and cultural background, a chronology of Pope's life and times, an introduction to each thematic group of documents, headnotes, extensive annotations, a selected bibliography, and a generous collection of maps, portraits, and illustrations make this volume a unique scholarly edition of this classic work of eighteenth-century literature.