Selected Poetry [Paperback]

Though critical opinion on Alexander Pope has frequently been divided, he is now regarded as the most important poet of the early eighteenth century. An invalid from infancy, he devoted his energies towards literature and achieved remarkable success with his first published work at the age of twenty-one. A succession of brilliant poems followed, includingAn Essay on Criticism(1711),Windsor Forest(1715), and his masterpiece,The Rape of the Lock. A second period of great poetry was begun in 1728 with the appearance of the firstDunciad. All these works--which exhibit Pope's astonishing human insight, his wide sympathies, and powers of social observation (displayed to greatest effect in his talent for satire)--are included in this selection of his poetry. It has been compiled by the distinguished Pope scholar and editor Pat Rodgers, who also provides an indispensable introduction that offers a new interpretation of Pope's poetry, and the philosophical ideas behind it.

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Introduction
Chronology
An Essay on Criticism
Windsor Forest
The Rape of the Lock
Epistile to Miss Blount, on her Leaving the Town after the Coronation
Eloisa to Abelard
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
Epitaph Intended for Sir Isaac Newton
An Epistle to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington
An Epistle to Allen Lord Bathurst
The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated
Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
An Epistle to a Lady
Epilogue to the Satires: l#…