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Alexander Pope : a life / Maynard Mack.

By:

Mack, Maynard, , 1909-2001

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press in association with W.W. Norton, New York , 1985.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 975 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmISBN:

0393022080

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 POP

LOC classification:

PR3633 .M27 1985

Summary: 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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	92 POP (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		022364

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.

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