New Light on Pope: With Some Additions to His Poetry Hitherto Unknown

by Norman Ault

Overview

First published in 1949, New Light on Pope is a collection of new poems by one of the greatest poets; new facts about his life and work; new judgements on his quarrels; new evidence of his loyalty to his friends; and new solutions of old problems.

These discoveries made during twenty years of intermittent research are presented in this volume which has already been declared by a well-known biographer of the poet definitely to establish Pope once for all as the man he was.

Other names, beside Pope’s, figure in the present work; and people like Addison, Swift, Gay, and Cibber, to mention only the best known, are seen in actions and attitudes which will be unfamiliar even to eighteenth century specialists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040399132
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/01/2025
Series:	Routledge Revivals
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	394
File size:	845 KB

About the Author

Norman Ault was a noted scholar of English poetry of the seventeenth century, and Alexander Pope.

Table of Contents

1. New judgment 2. Pope’s first miscellany 3. ‘To a Young Lady’ 4. The ‘Hadrian’ poems 5. Mr Alexander Pope: Painter 6. Pope and Addison 7. Pope and Rowe 8. The first psalm 9. Verses sent to Mrs. T.B. 10. Pope and Argyle 11. ‘Duke upon Duke’ 12. Martha Blount’s birthday poem 13. Help for Gay 14. Pope and Swift 15. Pope’s last miscellany 16. The ‘Character’ of Cloe 17. ‘The Six Maidens’ 18. Atterbury’s ‘Last Words’ 19. The End of Dennis 20. Pope and Cibber 21. Pope’s ‘Other’ Epitaphs 22. Pope and his dogs Appendix A. Biographical notes B. A list of abbreviations C. Bibliography of the poem: To Mrs. M.B. on her Birth-day