Alexander Pope: The Evolution of a Poet

ISBN-13: 9781138739710 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 330 str.

Netta Murray Goldsmith

Opis

This title was first published in 2002: Making use of the growing body of research in recent years on the nature of creativity, Netta Goldsmith here presents a new view of the famous poet whose personality has long frustrated scholars as elusive. Goldsmith tells the story of Pope’s life so as to show the factors”personal and public, psychological and social”which shaped his character and enabled him to secure widespread recognition as a major poet. Discussions of significant works are integrated into the narrative covering main events and key relationships, as well as illustrating points made throughout about Pope’s approach to his art. Alexander Pope not only provides a fresh perspective on Pope, but also on the very nature of literary creativity.

Spis treści

Contents: General editor's preface; Preface; Prologue: Images of Pope; How Alexander Pope became a poet: On being a Papist; The ’itch of poetry’; The apprentice; How Pope courted the judges: Launching a career; A poet’s manifesto; Making use of ’ev’ry Friend - and ev’ry Foe’; On being original; Support groups; Fighting the Opposition: Attack - the best method of defence: strategies; Homer’s pension; A poet and war; The art of love; The wrong place at the wrong time: Loss; Conspiracies; Failure all round; Pope recreates himself: The return; Into the arena; Bolingbroke: the ’master of the song’?; A new battlefield; The credentials of a moralist; Pope and the women; What the letters tell us; The patriots: a game of hide and seek; Exit a political activist; Looking to posterity; A closet editor; Pope’s ’bulldog’; Putting things in order; The death of a public figure; Afterword: Pope past and present; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Goldsmith, Netta Murray