Pope: Everyman's Poetry

by Alexander Pope, Douglas Brooks-Davies (Editor)

Overview

Chief satirist of the Augustan age, as seen in The rape of the Lock, Pope spoke out against society and his profession, in poetry of bitter invective and biting humour.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780223360
Publisher:	Orion
Publication date:	04/26/2012
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	227 KB

About the Author

Alexander Pope was an eighteenth-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, including ESSAY ON CRITICISM, THE RAPE OF THE LOCK and THE DUNCIAD, and for his translation of Homer. He is the second-most frequently quoted writer in THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS after Shakespeare.
Douglas Brooks-Davies was born in Wimbledon in 1942, and educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby and Brasenose College, Oxford. Formerly Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester, where he remains an Honorary Research fellow, he has published widely on Renaissance and later literature, and is now a freelance writer. His hobbies include gardening, singing, and playing the oboe.