Alexander Pope: The Evolution of a PoetThis 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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... Attack the Best Method of Defence : Strategies - 23 The Patriots: A Game of Hide and Seek 24. 10 Homer's Pension 11 A Poet and War 12 The Art of Love Part IV The Wrong Place at the Wrong Time 13 Loss 14 Conspiracies 15 Failure all Round ...
... Attack the Best Method of Defence : Strategies - 23 The Patriots: A Game of Hide and Seek 24. 10 Homer's Pension 11 A Poet and War 12 The Art of Love Part IV The Wrong Place at the Wrong Time 13 Loss 14 Conspiracies 15 Failure all Round ...
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... attacks he launched in his verse were merely a matter of paying off old scores . They denied he did not care about money , accusing him of being mercenary with an unpleasant way of heaping contempt on writers less well off than himself ...
... attacks he launched in his verse were merely a matter of paying off old scores . They denied he did not care about money , accusing him of being mercenary with an unpleasant way of heaping contempt on writers less well off than himself ...
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... attacks on his literary enemies he was safeguarding a tradition and his reputation as the leading exponent of it. Eventually he found a way to make these enemies serve his purpose directly when he orchestrated their clamour to publicise ...
... attacks on his literary enemies he was safeguarding a tradition and his reputation as the leading exponent of it. Eventually he found a way to make these enemies serve his purpose directly when he orchestrated their clamour to publicise ...
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... Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744: a descriptive bibliography (London: Methuen, 1969), p. xxix. 11.John Dennis, op. cit. 12. Corr. 4: 52In. 13. Verses Address'd to the Imitator Of The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace (London ...
... Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744: a descriptive bibliography (London: Methuen, 1969), p. xxix. 11.John Dennis, op. cit. 12. Corr. 4: 52In. 13. Verses Address'd to the Imitator Of The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace (London ...
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Contents
The Wrong Place at the Wrong Time | |
Loss | |
Conspiracies | |
Failure all Round | |
Pope Recreates Himself | |
The Return | |
Into the Arena | |
The Master of the Song? | |
The Apprentice | |
How Pope Courted the Judges | |
Launching a Career | |
A Poets Manifesto | |
Making Use of evry Friend and evry Foe | |
On Being Original | |
Support Groups | |
Fighting the Opposition | |
Strategies | |
Homers Pension | |
A Poet and | |
The Art of Love | |
A New Battlefield | |
The Credentials of a Moralist | |
Pope and the Women | |
What the Letters Tell | |
A Closet Editor | |
Popes Bulldog | |
Putting Things in Order | |
The Death of a Public Figure | |
Pope Past and Present | |
Index | |
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