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Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry and Prose (edition 1972)

by Alexander Pope, Jr. William K. Wimsatt (Introduction)

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Alexander Pope's technical polish and intellectual poise appeal to the subtlest audience. This selection includes The Rape of the Lock, Eloisa to Abelard, and extracts from The Dunciad and the translation of Homer.

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Title:	Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry and Prose
Authors:	Alexander Pope
Other authors:	Jr. William K. Wimsatt (Introduction)
Info:	Harcourt Brace College Publishers (1972), Edition: 2, Paperback, 576 pages
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Selected Poetry and Prose {Rinehart Edition} by Alexander Pope

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Pope is the master of the heroic couplet in English. His poetry can seem quite distant from us now because it was so immersed in the specific politics and personalities of its time; to some degree, this is the curse of the satirist. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Alexander Pope	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Wimsatt, William K.	Editor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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1688-1744

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There are not, I believe, a greater number of any sort of verses than of those which are called Pastorals; nor a smaller, than of those which are truly so.

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The Rinehart Edition, edited by William K Wimsatt. Do not combine with collections containing different poems.

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Alexander Pope's technical polish and intellectual poise appeal to the subtlest audience. This selection includes The Rape of the Lock, Eloisa to Abelard, and extracts from The Dunciad and the translation of Homer.

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