At a glance:
- Author: Maynard Mack
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1688-1744
- Setting: England
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Love or romance, Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Seventeenth century, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Catholics or Catholic Church, Diseases, Tuberculosis, Neoclassicism, Literary criticism
- Locales: Europe, England, United Kingdom
Fame and reputation have not dealt evenly with Alexander Pope, the leading English poet of the early eighteenth century. Following his death, he was generally ranked among the greatest of English poets, but his reputation declined during the Romantic period, when neoclassicism fell into disfavor. In the twentieth century, Pope has found enthusiastic readers, although their numbers are small. His place in literary history remains secure, yet he is studied as a poet of a remote era and remote sensibility rather than as a living influence upon contemporary literature. In his...
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