Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Major Works by Biography of Alexander Pope. Alexander Pope was born on May 21, 1688 in London. His father was a linen-draper of Plough Court, Lombard Street. Despite his family’s Catholic faith, which barred him from attending university, Pope learned Greek and Latin under the tutelage of a local priest and, later, at Catholic school. In 1700, Pope’s family moved to in Winsor Forest, where Pope undertook a regime of rigorous self-education once his formal education was complete. He read, studied, and translated, sometimes teaching himself languages through the act of translation. It was at Binfield that the sixteen-year-old Pope composed his Pastorals (published 1709). Around this same time, Pope contracted some form of tuberculosis, probably Pott’s Disease, which weakened his spine, stunted his growth, and permanently damaged his health. After the onset of his illness, Pope resolved to go to London to learn French and Italian. In the circles of fashionable London society (not the trade districts of Hammersmith or City, where he lived as a child), Pope made a number of literary acquaintances including William Wycherley and William Congreve, both noted comic dramatists. It seems likely that Pope’s manuscript of the Pastorals circulated among these powerful literary figures, shaping Pope’s career. With the help of his literary acquaintances, Pope began to publish his works. As the title of the poem suggests, the Pastorals distilled the English pastoral ideal into poetic form, echoing Virgil’s Eclogues . Even at this early point in Pope’s career, he did not limit his poetic subject matter. His second major poem, (1711), took a more discursive tone, closer to Horace’s Ars Poetica . "An Essay on Criticism" gained the attention of Joseph Addison, one of the founders of the influential magazine The Spectator , and he included some of Pope’s works in the publication. During the first decade of the eighteenth century, Pope also composed a descriptive and historical poem on his native region of Windsor Forest, entitled "Windsor-Forest" (1713), which caught the attention of Jonathan , with whom he would later found the . By the time "Windsor-Forest" was published, "" (1714) had already been circulated anonymously, but Pope revised and lengthened the work for publication and claimed authorship. The publication of "The Rape of the Lock" marked the conclusion of Pope’s literary apprenticeship, and he embarked on his own projects. Now a famous poet, Pope began work on several projects. He commenced writing a translation of Homer’s The Iliad (1720), which took him six years to complete. Translations at the time were very profitable and popular and it is likely that Pope began this project due to his poor finances. Pope had relied on annuities from his father's investments for some time, and around the time Pope begins this project, the interest on these investments would have taken a marked decline. The translation was not only the key to reviving Pope's finances, but also allowed Pope to write without the assistance of a patron and earned him critical acclaim. Following this triumph, Pope then undertook a translation of The Odyssey (1726). The two works were immensely popular, establishing Pope’s fortune and solidifying his fame. He also produced an edition of Shakespeare’s works, which was completed in 1725. At the same time, Pope was drawn to a friendship with a group of writers with Tory sympathies who styled themselves the Scriblerus Club. Counting , , , and Thomas Parnell among its members, the group dedicated itself to the mockery of false learning and antiquarianism. Following the Jacobite (Catholic) rebellion of 1715, which protested the accession of George I and during which many Tories lost their government positions, several of Pope’s friends were imprisoned in the Tower of London. As a Catholic with Tory sympathies, whose literary friends and political allies were on the losing side, Pope had to be very careful. Because Catholics were no longer welcome in London’s center, Pope moved to Twickenham. Pope emerged from the crisis unscathed and remained relatively quiet for a few years. A short poem published in 1728 marked Pope’s return to the world of political writing. In continuation of his work for the Scriblerus club, Pope composed (1728-42, revised 1743) which daringly satirized contemporary authors he viewed as bad writers—Lewis Theobald in particular. Though the poem was ostensibly a on bad writers, it contained allusions that seemed to challenge George II's rule. There was a general outcry following the publication of The Dunciad , and it seemed that his reputation as a satiric poet was solidified. After the first publication of The Dunciad , Pope turned to other subjects in his poetry. In "" (1732-4), Pope abandoned satire to focus on philosophy and metaphysics. The poem attempts to outline man’s place and purpose in the universe and his relation to God. During the 1730s, he also began work on his Imitations of Horace (1733-8), which had neither a political nor a moral agenda. Rather, the poems range from imitations of Horace’s and epistles to reflections on Horace’s mode and style. The works collected in Imitations of Horace had little precedent in English literature—in either style or subject matter—and indicated Pope’s move away from poetic imitation of his English contemporaries. In the 1740s Pope returned to The Dunciad and revised his 1728 version. The New Dunciad (1742) replaced Lewis Theobald with Colley Cibber as the satiric subject. Cibber had been the poet laureate since 1730, and Pope believed his works demonstrated shallowness and complacency. He died shortly afterward in 1744, having suffered from ill-health most of his life. What distinguishes Pope from his many accomplished contemporaries is his breadth. Unlike many eighteenth-century writers of verse and prose— Swift, Addison, Gay, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, , etc.—Pope seems to have reinvented his literary self every five to ten years. Despite his reputation as a satirist, he contributed to virtually every genre from pastoral to rural history to mock-epic to translation to moral philosophy to the autobiographical poetry of the Imitations of Horace . ISBN 13: 9780199537617. Alexander Pope has often been termed the first true professional poet in English, whose dealings with the book trade helped to produce the literary marketplace of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this representative selection of Pope's most important work, the texts are presented in chronological sequence so that the and Imitations of Horace are restored to their original position in his career. This edition represents the single most comprehensive anthology of Pope's works. The Duncaid, The Rape of the Lock, and Imitations of Horace are presented in full, together with a characteristic sample of Pope's prose, including satires, pamphlets, and periodical writing. This edition also includes a further reading list, an invaluable biographical index as well as indexes of titles, first lines, and correspondences. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Pat Rogers is the editor of The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature and of Boswell's Life of Johnson in OWC. His most recent book is Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts (OUP, 2005). "This edition covers Pope's most significant poems, and combines them with useful secondary material from key letters and essays. The edition is also good for making links to Pope's interest in the Classical world." - Dr Elizabeth Wright, Senior Lecturer in English, Bath Spa University. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Shipping: FREE From United Kingdom to U.S.A. Other Popular Editions of the Same Title. 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Windsor-Forest (1713) Complete (Ward ed. 1893) - GB Complete - UToronto Complete - Jack Lynch, Rutgers Complete - Virginia Tech. The Iliad of Homer , tr. (1715-20) Complete - UVA Complete - Project Gutenberg [Book I] - Jack Lynch. (1717) Complete - Google Books Complete - UToronto. Ode on Solitude (1717) Complete (1752 ed.) - Google Books Complete - UToronto. Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (1717) Complete (1752 ed.) - Google Books Complete - UToronto. The Odyssey of Homer , tr. (1725-26) Complete - Project Gutenberg. The Alley. An Imitation of Spenser (pub. 1727) Complete - Virginia Tech. The Dunciad (1728; 1743) Complete - Google Books [Book IV] - Jack Lynch. An Essay on Man (1733-4) Complete - Project Gutenberg. An (1734) Complete - Jack Lynch Complete - UToronto. Of the Characters of Women (1735) [Later published in Works as Epistle II: To a Lady] Complete - Google Books Complete - UToronto. Letters of Mr. Pope and Several Eminent Persons (1735-37) Complete - Google Books. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus (1741) Complete (1886 ed.) - Google Books. Site copyright ©1996-2011 Anniina Jokinen. All Rights Reserved. Created by Anniina Jokinen on October 28, 2006. Last updated on November 20, 2011. The Major Works of Alexander Pope Text. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was a gifted poet, literary critic and translator of the Augustan Age, whose powerful poetic satire and perfection of the English makes him one of the most famous and respected poets of all time. Pope embodied eighteenth-century neoclassical ideals like order, beauty, sophisticated wit, and refined moral sentiment. Included in this collection is «The Rape of The Lock», a satirical poem that mocks ancient epics, one of Pope's most famous works. Also included is «An Essay on Man», a work that met immediate acclaim throughout Europe upon publication, and is still renowned today. In this work, Pope attempts to «vindicate the ways of God to man» (I. 16). Additionally, «The Major Works of Alexander Pope» also includes «The Dunciad», a work regarded as a literary landmark in satirical writing, personifying Dullness as a goddess and the harm she causes to the kingdom of Great Britain. The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) The poetry community is looking inward after revelations about the treatment of a 34-year-old subject suffering from an extremely rare condition called aprosodia: the total inability to detect poetic meter. The subject’s identity remains undisclosed for privacy reasons, but officials did reveal that he is a college English professor and that his name is trochaic. “It has a nice tripping lilt to it,” said the lead meter scientist at the National Prosody Center, which bills itself as the world’s most stressful workplace. The NPC had long been aware of the subject’s existence. His high school English teacher queried the center after the otherwise sharp student failed to grasp the basics of iambic pentameter. “The wóods decáy, the wóods decáy and fáll. Da-dum, da-dum, da-dum, da-dum, da-dum. Nothing. He would just stare at me in utter incomprehension,” said the teacher. The subject learned to fake the ability to scan during his graduate studies, nodding sagely when a classmate pointed out an inverted foot or a cheeky instance of catalexis. And yet, because he could not hear any of the metrical effects described, he began to think of himself as the victim of an elaborate hoax. His psychological state deteriorated, and he was finally admitted to the National Prosody Center after accusing a colleague of communicating with foreign agents via his metrical notation of Elizabethan verse. A subsequent MRI revealed that the areas of the subject’s brain that normally lit up during scansion remained completely dark. Over the next several months, researchers devised an audacious plan to rehabilitate him that pushed the bounds of prosodical ethics. First, they tried animal therapy. The subject received daily visits from Donovan the Dactylic Duck, a waterfowl trained to vocalize in a distinctive pattern: “Qúack quack quack, Qúack quack quack.” He enjoyed these visits but consistently failed to replicate Donovan’s dactyls on a decoy. Next, NPC researchers attempted sleep deprivation therapy, locking the subject in a padded room while piping in Anglo Saxon verse day and night. By the third morning, he seemed to be grasping the basics of the alliterative-stress meter, but the experiment had to be suspended after he attacked an orderly he thought was Grendel’s mother. (“A brief caesura until his visions subside,” a NPC spokesperson noted.) The subject was then put on a diet of limericks, the restorative effects of anapestic trimester being well documented. Indeed, he gave researchers hope when he appeared to have correctly identified a pyrrhic foot, but subsequent tests revealed it to have been a lucky guess. (“An ultimately hollow victory,” admitted a NPC spokesperson.) Stymied, the brass decided to bring in its heavy hitter: U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith. She saw it as her mission not only to spread the love of poetry to the general public, but also to beat the principles of poetic stress into any and all. Meeting the subject in the NPC’s boxing ring each morning, Smith demonstrated flawless pugilistic and poetic technique in pummeling the refractory denier with virtuosic combinations of weak and strong punches—all according to the strictures of various meters. Preliminary results were promising, as the daily lessons appeared to be penetrating the subject’s thick skull. However, Smith took things too far in one sparring session when, feeling she was nearing a breakthrough, she unleashed a hard thud of a spondee that knocked him senseless. This time the AMA intervened, calling a halt to any future experiments. Furthermore, the ACLU declared that even mentioning the metrical complexities of Hopkins’s sprung rhythm within the patient’s earshot would violate his civil liberties. The failure was a blow to the reputation of the National Prosody Center, which had earned plaudits for its work with another subject, “The Ear,” known for her ability to detect over 300 distinct stress levels. (She currently presides over a metrical review board that resolves disputes between bickering prosodists.) The controversy also affected the center financially. Owing to the backlash, sales of the NPC’s footware line, Fresh Kictus, plummeted. The case of the man who couldn’t scan thrust scansion to the forefront of roiling intellectual debates. Some claimed the subject was the ideal poetic reader, immune to the hegemonic structures embedded in both meter and society. “I prefer not to scan” became the rallying cry for those seeking a radical democratization of the heretofore fascistic poetic line. Others took a reactionary stance, arguing that he was a symptom of metrical decadence: His inability to discern the most basic pattern of stresses reflected a larger societal collapse of moral values. After recovering from his Tracy K. Smith tutorial, the subject seemed baffled by the buzz surrounding his strange affliction and expressed an eagerness to return to his normal life. One sympathetic NPC researcher slipped a copy of Pope’s An Essay on Criticism in his bag as he was being discharged. In the hopes that the shoddy treatment wouldn’t turn the metrically challenged man off poetry for good, she had highlighted the following passage: But most by numbers judge a poet’s song;And smooth or rough, with them is right or wrong:In the bright Muse though thousand charms conspire,Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire,Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear,Not mend their minds; as some to church repair,Not for the doctrine, but the music there. The subject has adjusted to life outside the center and resumed teaching. He still has weekly visits with Donovan the duck.