Alexander Pope: The Evolution of a PoetAshgate, 2002 - 316 pages This title was first published in 2002: Making use of the growing body of research in recent years on the nature of creativity, Netta Goldsmith here presents a new view of the famous poet whose personality has long frustrated scholars as elusive. Goldsmith tells the story of Pope's life so as to show the factors-personal and public, psychological and social-which shaped his character and enabled him to secure widespread recognition as a major poet. Discussions of significant works are integrated into the narrative covering main events and key relationships, as well as illustrating points made throughout about Pope's approach to his art. Among other things this book shows how vulnerable Pope felt as a Papist in a time of endemic Jacobite activity, and how his fear of possible prosecution for sedition determined much of his conduct and the way he shaped his career. Alexander Pope: The evolution of a poet not only provides a fresh perspective on Pope, but also on the very nature of literary creativity. |
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Page 101
... attacked for any number of reasons , literary , religious , political , or just because some people thought he was obnoxious . Whatever the apparent or underlying motive for an attack , Pope was congenitally incapable of not fighting ...
... attacked for any number of reasons , literary , religious , political , or just because some people thought he was obnoxious . Whatever the apparent or underlying motive for an attack , Pope was congenitally incapable of not fighting ...
Page 186
... attacks came , all of them hard hitting , some of them obscene . Since the law of libel , as we know it , did ... attack . Some of the people Pope pilloried could take care of themselves . When Richard Bentley found his way into ...
... attacks came , all of them hard hitting , some of them obscene . Since the law of libel , as we know it , did ... attack . Some of the people Pope pilloried could take care of themselves . When Richard Bentley found his way into ...
Page 311
... attacked by Lady Mary and Lord Hervey 210 , Essay on Man acclaimed 212. Mother aged 91 dies 212 , Hervey's attacks cause anxiety 214-15 , recreates himself as moralist 215 , writes Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot and attacks Hervey as Sporus ...
... attacked by Lady Mary and Lord Hervey 210 , Essay on Man acclaimed 212. Mother aged 91 dies 212 , Hervey's attacks cause anxiety 214-15 , recreates himself as moralist 215 , writes Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot and attacks Hervey as Sporus ...
Contents
Images of Pope | 1 |
On Being a Papist | 17 |
The Itch of Poetry | 26 |
Copyright | |
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