Author: William Hutchings
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1800644140
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The book is a chronological reading of Alexander Pope’s poems, from the Pastorals (1709) to the four-book Dunciad (1743). Each of the 26 chapters forming the volume selects examples for detailed scrutiny, demonstrating how close reading can generate understanding of a whole poem and how critical appraisal can build into a creative survey of an entire poetic career. The book’s approach is intended to be both scholarly and accessible and 'Wit's Wild Dancing Light' will be of interest to scholars, students and anybody interested in Pope’s masterful poetry.
‘Wit’s Wild Dancing Light’
Author: William Hutchings
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1800644140
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The book is a chronological reading of Alexander Pope’s poems, from the Pastorals (1709) to the four-book Dunciad (1743). Each of the 26 chapters forming the volume selects examples for detailed scrutiny, demonstrating how close reading can generate understanding of a whole poem and how critical appraisal can build into a creative survey of an entire poetic career. The book’s approach is intended to be both scholarly and accessible and 'Wit's Wild Dancing Light' will be of interest to scholars, students and anybody interested in Pope’s masterful poetry.
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1800644140
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The book is a chronological reading of Alexander Pope’s poems, from the Pastorals (1709) to the four-book Dunciad (1743). Each of the 26 chapters forming the volume selects examples for detailed scrutiny, demonstrating how close reading can generate understanding of a whole poem and how critical appraisal can build into a creative survey of an entire poetic career. The book’s approach is intended to be both scholarly and accessible and 'Wit's Wild Dancing Light' will be of interest to scholars, students and anybody interested in Pope’s masterful poetry.
'Wit's Wild Dancing Light'
Author: William Hutchings
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781800643017
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Wit's Wild Dancing Light acts as a highly useful entry point for readers who are encountering Pope for the first time and also contains much illuminating material for those who are already familiar with his poetry. -Dr Ian Calvert, University of Bristol The book is a chronological reading of Alexander Pope's poems, from the Pastorals (1709) to the four-book Dunciad (1743). Each of the 26 chapters forming the volume selects examples for detailed scrutiny, demonstrating how close reading can generate understanding of a whole poem and how critical appraisal can build into a creative survey of an entire poetic career. The book's approach is intended to be both scholarly and accessible and Wild Wit's Dancing Light will be of interest to scholars, students and anybody interested in Pope's masterful poetry. William Hutchings was formerly Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Director of the Centre for Excellence in Enquiry-Based Learning at the University of Manchester, UK and he is presently Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at that university. He now lectures regularly to public groups locally and nationally. He has a wealth of teaching experience on English Literature courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and is the editor of Andrew Marvell: Selected Poems, the author of The Poetry of William Cowper, and Literary Criticism: A Practical Guide for Students.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781800643017
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Wit's Wild Dancing Light acts as a highly useful entry point for readers who are encountering Pope for the first time and also contains much illuminating material for those who are already familiar with his poetry. -Dr Ian Calvert, University of Bristol The book is a chronological reading of Alexander Pope's poems, from the Pastorals (1709) to the four-book Dunciad (1743). Each of the 26 chapters forming the volume selects examples for detailed scrutiny, demonstrating how close reading can generate understanding of a whole poem and how critical appraisal can build into a creative survey of an entire poetic career. The book's approach is intended to be both scholarly and accessible and Wild Wit's Dancing Light will be of interest to scholars, students and anybody interested in Pope's masterful poetry. William Hutchings was formerly Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Director of the Centre for Excellence in Enquiry-Based Learning at the University of Manchester, UK and he is presently Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at that university. He now lectures regularly to public groups locally and nationally. He has a wealth of teaching experience on English Literature courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and is the editor of Andrew Marvell: Selected Poems, the author of The Poetry of William Cowper, and Literary Criticism: A Practical Guide for Students.
This Dark Estate
Author: Thomas R. Edwards
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Reader-response criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Reader-response criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry
Author: Virginia Brackett
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108354
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive A-to-Z reference with approximately 400 entries providing facts about British poets and their poetry from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108354
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive A-to-Z reference with approximately 400 entries providing facts about British poets and their poetry from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Select Extracts from English Poetry for youth. With notes by E. F.
Author: Ed FRITSCHE
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Works of Alexander Pope ... With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements ... Printed from the Octavo Edition of Mr. Warburton
Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The Reach of Poetry
Author: Albert Cook
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557530684
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Through an insightful analysis of key poets in various Western traditions, Cook demonstrates that the best poetry, while subject to the language and conditions of its time, also rises above these conditions by playing them back against themselves with a freedom whose ineffability is the sign of its ultimate lucidity.
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557530684
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Through an insightful analysis of key poets in various Western traditions, Cook demonstrates that the best poetry, while subject to the language and conditions of its time, also rises above these conditions by playing them back against themselves with a freedom whose ineffability is the sign of its ultimate lucidity.
The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
Author: Alexander Pope
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
This book contains poems by Alexander Pope, 18th-century English poet best known for his satirical verse and use of heroic couplet.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
This book contains poems by Alexander Pope, 18th-century English poet best known for his satirical verse and use of heroic couplet.
The Dunciad in Four Books
Author: Valerie Rumbold
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317863240
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
The Dunciad in Four Books of 1743 was the culmination of the series of Dunciads which Alexander Pope produced over the last decade and a half of his life. It comprises not only a poem, but also a mass of authorial annotation and appendices, and this authoritative edition is the only one available which gives all the verse and the prose in a clearly laid-out form, with a full modern commentary. Accessibly presented on the same page as Pope’s text are explanatory notes, written in a style adapted to the needs of undergraduate readers, but still comprehensive enough to address the interests of scholars. The many books and pamphlets to which Pope refers have been examined in detail, and the commentary takes advantage of the fifty years’ scholarship on literary, bibliographical, cultural and political aspects of the period which has accumulated since James Sutherland’s The Dunciad, volume five of the Twickenham Edition. A substantial introduction offers a stimulating and helpful approach to the work, and the bibliography includes extensive suggestions for further reading.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317863240
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
The Dunciad in Four Books of 1743 was the culmination of the series of Dunciads which Alexander Pope produced over the last decade and a half of his life. It comprises not only a poem, but also a mass of authorial annotation and appendices, and this authoritative edition is the only one available which gives all the verse and the prose in a clearly laid-out form, with a full modern commentary. Accessibly presented on the same page as Pope’s text are explanatory notes, written in a style adapted to the needs of undergraduate readers, but still comprehensive enough to address the interests of scholars. The many books and pamphlets to which Pope refers have been examined in detail, and the commentary takes advantage of the fifty years’ scholarship on literary, bibliographical, cultural and political aspects of the period which has accumulated since James Sutherland’s The Dunciad, volume five of the Twickenham Edition. A substantial introduction offers a stimulating and helpful approach to the work, and the bibliography includes extensive suggestions for further reading.