Table of Contents

List of plates; Notes on contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; Part I. The Rape of the Lock: 1. Virgins visited by angel powers: The Rape of the Lock, platonick love, sylphs and some mysticks Partrica Brückmann; 2. The Rape of the Lock and the contexts of warfare Howard D. Weinbrot; Part II. Pope and Women: 3. 'Dipt in the rainbow': Pope on women Felicity Rosslyn; 4. Engendering the reader: 'Wit and Poetry and Pope' once more Penelope Wilson; Part III. An Essay on Man: 5. Pope on the origins of society Howard Erskine-Hill; 6. Pope and the arts of pleasure David B. Morris; Part IV. Landscape Gardening and the Villa at Twickenham: 7. Pope, Kent and 'Palladian' gardening John Dixon Hunt; 8. The iconography of Pope's villa: images of poetic fame Morris R. Brownell; Part V. Pope and Translation and Criticism: 9. Moving cities: Pope as translator and transposer A. D. Nuttall; 10. The genius of Pope's genius: criticism and the text(s) Wallace Jackson; Part VI. Pope and Posterity: 11. 'Wholesome country air': Pope, Pushkin and other Pat Rogers; 12. Pope and the tradition in modern humanistic education: '… in the pale of Words till death' G. S. Rousseau; 13. An anatomy of Pope-bashing Donald Greene; Index.

Promotional Information

This comprehensive 1988 survey of the poet's life and work appeared during the 300th anniversary of Alexander Pope's birth in 1688.