Alexander Pope

Klappentext Professor Gooneratne shows how Pope's best and most deeply-felt verse expresses the living values of the Age of Enlightenment. Zusammenfassung Professor Gooneratne shows how Pope's best and most deeply-felt verse expresses the living values of the Age of Enlightenment. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introductory; 2. 'The liberty of borrowing'; 3. 'Common town-wits and downright country fools'; 4. 'The varying verse, the full resounding line'; 5. '...And energy divine'; 6. 'The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth'; 7. 'That not in fancy's maze he wander'd long, but stoop'd to truth...'; 8. '...And moraliz'd his song'; 9. 'A true satyrist'; Index of passages quoted.

Product details

• Authors: Yasmine Gooneratne
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.05.2009
• EAN: 9780521290517
• ISBN: 978-0-521-29051-7
• Series: British Authors. Introductory
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies