So many questions surround the key figures in the English literary canon, but most books focus on one aspect of an author's life or work, or limit themselves to a single critical approach. Alexander Pope is a comprehensive, user-friendly guide which:
* offers information on Pope's life, contexts and works
* outline the major critical issues surrounding his works, from the time they were written to the present
*explains the full range of different critical views and interpretations
* offers guides to further reading in each area discussed

Introduction.
Section 1: Life and Contexts
A Catholic Childhood
Forest Retreats
Literary London
Kings and Queens
Scriblerus; Epic Intent
Booksellers and Ladies
Works and Days
Twickenham
Shakespeare
Epic of Fleet Street
System and Satire
Horace
Letters
Laureate in Opposition
One Mighty Dunciad
The End Section 2: An Essay on Criticism
Forest Windsor
The Rape of the Lock
Eloisa to Abelard
Essay on Man
Epistles to Several Persons
Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
Imitations of Horace
The Dunciad
Further Reading Section 3: Criticism
Pope and Poetry
Pope and Politics
Pope, Gender and Body
Pope in Print and Manuscript Further Reading Chronology Bibliography

Paul Baines is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Liverpool.

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