Alexander Pope

A satiric poem about Belinda and the evil Baron who wants to steal a lock of her hair, it is a commentary on the battle of the sexes and the contemporary social world of high society.

The Rape of the Lock

This book contains Alexander Pope s seminal interpretation of the original Homeric poem, published serially from 1715 to 1720. Hailed by Samuel Johnson as a performance which no age or nation could hope to equal, this is a classic text that has moulded centuries of British and American culture through its beautiful and timeless poetry. Complete with the inimitable line drawing Flexman, this edition provides a perfect rendering of this fine English verse which captures wonderfully the song of Homer himself a must-read for absolutely everyone. Alexander was an English poet most renowned for his satirical verse and for the writing of this book. He is also the third-most quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations after Shakespeare and Tennyson. This book is proudly republished now with a new introductory biography of the author.

The Illiad of Homer

An Essay on Man

An Essay On Criticism

Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus

An Essay on Criticism

Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope

Features selections of the author's prose and poems, including the full texts of "The Dunciad," "The Rape of the Lock," and "Peri Bathous."

The Major Works

A splendid presentation of Pope’s poems, excluding only his translations of Homer, this is the only one-volume edition that can lay claim to completeness and accuracy of text. It presents the corpus of Pope’s poetry as printed in the highly praised Twickenham Edition, except for the 1712 version of The Rape of the Lock and other early versions of phrases preserved in the critical apparatus of the six-volume work. Pope’s own notes to his poems are included, as well as a generous selection of the copious annotation in the Twickenham text. This reduced version of the unsurpassed standard edition of Pope will be of great value to all students and teachers of English literature. John Butt, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh University, is general editor of the Twickenham Edition. "The publishers are surely right in claiming that 'this should for long remain the standard one-volume edition of Pope's poems.' The Twichenham edition . . . has been a splendid achievement, and Professor Butt's distillation of the long labours of his fellow-editors is most commendable."—Times Literary Supplement.

A One-volume Edition of the Twickenham Text with Selected Annotations

The Poems of Alexander Pope

Tom Jones

Essay on Man

Leopold Damrosch

A new collection includes early poems, excerpts from Pope's translation of the "Iliad," selected prose works, and letters to such contemporaries as John Gay and Jonathan Swift.

Poems and Other Writings

The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings

Eloisa to Abelard

Presents sixteen works by eighteenth-century English poet Alexander Pope, including "An Essay on Criticism," "The Rape of the Lock," and "The Dunciad," and includes explanatory notes and a biographical introduction.

Selected Poetry

Moral Essays

The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-Comical Poem by Alexander Pope and Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope. One of the most commonly cited examples of high burlesque, it was first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (May 1712) in two cantos (334 lines); a revised edition "Written by Mr. Pope" followed in March 1714 as a five-canto version (794 lines) accompanied by six engravings. Pope boasted that this sold more than three thousand copies in its first four days. The final form of the poem appeared in 1717 with the addition of Clarissa's speech on good humour. The poem was much translated and contributed to the growing popularity of mock-heroic in Europe.

An Heroi-Comical Poem

Aubrey Beardsley

A rare example of a literary work where text, typography, and illustration perfectly complement one another. Created during Beardsley's Romantic period, the rich, textural contrasts of his drawings are a wonderful match for the delicate fancy of Pope's poem. "These drawings . . . can scarcely be matched in English literature." — R. A. Walker.Reprint of the original 1896 edition.

The Rape of the Lock: an Heroicomical Poem in Five Cantos

The Dunciad

A key to the lock. Or, A treatise proving ... the dangerous tendency of ... The rape of the lock, to government and religion. By Esdras Barnivelt

Windsor-Forest. to the Right Honourable George Lord Lansdown. by Mr. Pope. to Which Is Added, the Rape of the Locke

Fans of literary lampoonery will delight in the no-holds-barred, scorched-earth satire that British poet Alexander Pope unleashes in his witty masterpiece, The Dunciad. Disgusted by the teeming waves of self-proclaimed "writers" who emerged in search of a quick buck when the growing availability of cheaply printed books made sentimental stories popular with the public, Pope took it upon himself to put these hacks in their place in an epic poem lambasting their dullness and lack of refinement.

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