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Pope Moral Essays (Epistles)

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Editions The standard edition is the multi- volume Twickenham one which is available in a one- volume version called The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. John Butt, London: Methuen 1963. It has some annotations. Routledge English Texts has an edition ed. by Robin Sowerby called Alexander Pope Selected Poetry and Prose, London and New York: Routledge, 1988, which has fairly student- friendly notes at the back. Life Johnson, Samuel. Life of Pope: in Lives of the Poets. Mack. Maynard. Alexander Pope: A Life. New Haven and London.:Yale University Press. 1985. General, and collections of essays. Baines, Paul. The Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope. London: Routledge 2000. (SDC). (studentfriendly and useful) Brown, Laura. Alexander Pope. Re-reading Literature. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985. Brown, Laura. Ends of Empire: Women and Ideology in Early Eighteenth Century English Literature. Ithaca: Cornell UP: 1993. Doody, Margaret A. The Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry Reconsidered. Cambridge: CUP, 1985. Fairer , David. Ed. Pope: New Contexts. Hemel Hempstead, Herts: Harvester Press 1990. Fairer, David. Popes Imagination. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984. Gordon, I.R.F. Preface to Pope. Longman. (Useful start; see esp. The country and retirement, Kindred Arts; Augustan Lit terms and Popes Beliefs, and analysis of Burlington p. 142.) Hammond, Brean S. Pope. Harvester New Readings, Brighton: Harvester Press, 1986. Hammond. Brean. Ed. Pope Harlow: Longman, 1996 (this is a selection of essays). Mack, Maynard ed. Essential Articles for the Study of Alexander Pope. Hamden CT: Archon, rev. edn 1968. Mack M. and J. Winn eds. Pope: Recent Essays by Several Hands. Hamden CT: Archon, 1980.Supplements the above. Rogers, Pat. Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope. Cambridge: CUP 2007. (JMC library. Contains well- organised reading list) Rogers, Pat. Introduction to Pope. Rousseau G.S. and Pat Rogers eds. The Enduring Legacy: Alexander Pope: Tercentenary Essays. Cambridge: CUP, 1988. Stallybrass, Peter and White, Allon. The Politics and Poetics of Transgression. London: Methuen 1985 (80-118) rpt. in Hammond ed. (1996) 200-19. Epistles: general Brown Laura (1985), p. 94-127. Dixon, P. The World of Popes Satires: An Introduction to the Epistles and Imitations of Horace. London: Methuen, 1968. Leranbaum, M. Alexander, Popes Opus Magnum, 1729-1744. Oxford: Clarendon, 1977. Epistle to Burlington Ayres, Philip. Popes Epistle to Burlington: The Vitruvian Analogies Studies in English Literature, 15001900, 30: 429-44. 1990 Brown, Laura. Alexander Pope, (above) ch. 7. Brownell, Alexander Pope and the Arts of Georgian England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. Dixon, Peter. World (above) p. 54-62. Erskine-Hill, Howard . Heirs of Vitruvius: Pope and the Idea of Architecture in Erskine Hill and Anne Smith eds. The Art of Alexander Pope. London: Vision Press, 1979. (JMC) Ferraro, Julian From taste to use: Popes Epistle to Burlington British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies 19 (1996): 141-59. Gibson, W. A. Three Principles of Renaissance Architectural Theory in Popes Epistle to Burlington. In Mack and Winn, above. Hibbard, G.R. The Country-House Poem of the Seventeenth Century in Mack, ed. Essential Articles. p. 439-75.

Kelsall, Malcolm. Landscapes and Estates Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope ed Pat Rogers, Cambridge: CUP 2007. Mack, M. The Garden and the City: Retirement and Politics in the Later Poetry of Pope. 1731-1743. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1969. Morris, David B. Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1984 Leranbaum, M. book listed above, chapter v. Mahaffey, Kathleen, Timons Villa: Walpoles Houghton. Texas Studies in Literature and Language ix (1967) 193-222. also see Mack, Garden, p 272-78 Price, Martin. To the Palace of Wisdom. (SDC) p. 155-59. Epistle to a Lady Claridge, Laura. Popes Rape of Excess, rpt in Hammond (1996), 88-100. Clark, Steve. Let Blood and Body Bear the Fault: Pope and Misogyny. in Fairer ed. above p. 81-103 Knellwolf, Christa. A Contradiction Still: Representations of the Feminine in the Poetry of Alexander Pope. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. (available??) Parkin, Rebecca P. The Poetic Workmanship of Alexander Pope. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1965. Extract on Epistle to a Lady in Mack and Winn, Essential Articles. Pollak, Ellen. The Poetics of Sexual Myth: Gender and Ideology in the Verse of Swift and Pope. Chicago:Univ of Chicago Press, 1985. (available??) Pollak. Ellen. Pope and Sexual Difference: Woman as Part and Counterpart in the Epistle to a Lady.Studies in English Literature 24 (1984) 461-81. (SDC) Rosslyn, Felicity. Dipt in the Rainbow:Pope on Women in Rousseau and Rogers The Enduring Legacy (1988) p.51-62. Rumbold, V. Womens Place in Popes World. Cambridge:CUP, 1989. DU and SDC? Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot Dixon, Peter. World (above) p. 109-21. Donaldson, Ian. Concealing and Revealing: Popes Epistle to Arbuthnot, Yearbook of English Studies 18: 181-99. Ferguson, Rebecca. Intestine Wars: Body and Text in An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot and The Dunciad. In Fairer ed p. 137-152. Griffin, Dustin. Alexander Pope: The Poet in the Poems. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1978. Hammond, Brean. And hate for Arts that caused himself to rise: the Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot.(versions in both Hammonds books listed above!). Hotch, Ripley. The Dilemma of an Obedient Son: Popes Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot (1974) rpt in Mack and Winn (Recent Essays) 428-43. Mengel. Patterns of Imagery in Popes Arbuthnot rpt in ONeill ed Critics on Pope 1968. (JMC) Rogers, Pat. A drama of mixed feelings: the Epistle to Arbuthnot. Rpt. In Rogers, ed. Essays on Pope. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993. H. M. Raghunathan JMC