| The Poems of Alexander Pope: Volume Three: The Dunciad (1728) & the Dunciad Variorum (1729) Contributor(s): Rumbold, Valerie (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0582423422 ISBN-13: 9780582423428 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $277.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2007 Annotation: "The Poems of Alexander Pope" is a multi-volume edition of the poetry of Alexander Pope (1688-1744) resulting from a thorough reappraisal of his work, from composition through to reception. Annotations and headnotes, in keeping with the traditions of Longman Annotated English Poets, are full and informative, and the layout is designed to enable the reader to navigate easily between the poems, the record of variants and the editorial commentary. The poems are presented in chronological order of publication, in texts based on the first published edition of each, with original capitalisation, italicisation, punctuation and spelling preserved. A record of selected variants to each poem illustrates the changes Pope made in subsequent editions; and full editorial annotation sets the poems in appropriate literary, historical and cultural contexts. Where Pope's pre-publication manuscripts are still extant, their readings are also discussed; and issues of design and typography are highlighted in relation to Pope's detailed management of the forms in which his works appeared. Volumes one and two contain the poetry that appeared between 1709 and 1728, including "The Rape of the Lock," "An Essay on Criticism" and "The ""Temple of Fame." This third volume, edited by Valerie Rumbold, contains separate texts of "The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem" of 1728 (a three-book poem with only occasional brief notes) and "The Dunciad Variorum "of 1729 (a revised version of the three-book poem with authorial commentary and apparatus). This free-standing presentation of the 1728 poem makes possible a new focus on the briefer and more enigmatic form in which the poem was known to its first readers, and highlightsthe contrast with the 1729 poem, here presented with its full panoply of authorial apparatus. Throughout the editorial annotation there is sustained discussion of the surviving evidence about Pope's lost manuscript drafts, with detailed attention to the poems' historical, political and social contexts, and an up-to-date appraisal of the critical and scholarly tradition. Volumes four and five will contain the poetry that appeared between 1730 and Pope's death in 1744, including "An Essay on Man" and the Horatian epistles.When complete, "The Poems of Alexander Pope" will represent the most informative and thorough edition of Pope's poetry and will become a standard point of scholarly reference for all those concerned with Pope and his age.
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.5 |
| Series: Longman Annotated English Poets |
| Physical Information: 1.21" H x 6.57" W x 9.42" (1.76 lbs) 440 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is one of the greatest poets in European literature, comparable to the likes of likes of Shakespeare, Chaucer, Keats and Wordsworth. He is not easy to read though: his poetry uses dense literary and contemporary contextual allusions. This is why a book that gets the readers to the meaning of his poetry as painlessly as possible is so important. This volume features the complete text of Pope's most significant poem, The Dunciad. The first-rate annotations that accompany this edition of the poem provide information on matters of interpretation and give details of allusions that might prove baffling to the contemporary reader. |