Alexander Pope : a life
Mack, Maynard , 1909-2001
Alexander Pope : a life / Maynard Mack. - 1st ed. - New Haven : Yale University Press in association with W.W. Norton, New York , 1985. - xii, 975 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [820]-929.
Disadvantaged socially as a hunchback and cripple, politically as a Roman Catholic, Pope (1688-1744) rose to become the greatest poet of his age, in Byron's estimation ``the great moral poet of all times.'' In this first full biography of him since 1900, Pope scholar Mack blends sensitive criticism of his poetry, from the early pastorals and Homer translations to such masterpieces as The Rape of the Lock and the Dunciad, with copious and intriguing detail regarding the private life. In the process he is able to show that Pope's often exaggerated disagreeable qualitieshis vengefulness, deviousness, and capacity to hate were more than offset by his generosity, moral courage, and unswerving, sometimes risky, loyalty to a circle of friends that included Swift and John Gay. Pope held a mirror to his age, catching its follies and foibles, grandeur and viciousness with unrivaled precision; and Mack brings us both Pope and the age in a biography as entertaining as it is masterly.
0393022080
85002941
Pope, Alexander
Poets, English---18th century----Biography
PR3633 / .M27 1985
92 POP
Alexander Pope : a life / Maynard Mack. - 1st ed. - New Haven : Yale University Press in association with W.W. Norton, New York , 1985. - xii, 975 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [820]-929.
Disadvantaged socially as a hunchback and cripple, politically as a Roman Catholic, Pope (1688-1744) rose to become the greatest poet of his age, in Byron's estimation ``the great moral poet of all times.'' In this first full biography of him since 1900, Pope scholar Mack blends sensitive criticism of his poetry, from the early pastorals and Homer translations to such masterpieces as The Rape of the Lock and the Dunciad, with copious and intriguing detail regarding the private life. In the process he is able to show that Pope's often exaggerated disagreeable qualitieshis vengefulness, deviousness, and capacity to hate were more than offset by his generosity, moral courage, and unswerving, sometimes risky, loyalty to a circle of friends that included Swift and John Gay. Pope held a mirror to his age, catching its follies and foibles, grandeur and viciousness with unrivaled precision; and Mack brings us both Pope and the age in a biography as entertaining as it is masterly.
0393022080
85002941
Pope, Alexander
Poets, English---18th century----Biography
PR3633 / .M27 1985
92 POP
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