Alexander Pope

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-108-03457-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 325 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - English Men of Letters

Blending history with literary criticism and general reflections with hard facts, this biography from 1880, which places the man in the context of his greatest works, remains a useful starting-point for the study of Pope, not least because it gives an overview of earlier biographies. Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) came from a distinguished family of politicians, jurists and writers, and was the father of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. His literary career began with writing about his great passion, the Alps, and he became a noted author and critic, and the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. He was a friend of John Morley (1838-1923), the general editor of English Men of Letters, who commissioned him to write three biographies for the first series, on Swift, Pope and Johnson. Stephen's Sketches from Cambridge, published anonymously in 1865, is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stephen, Leslie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prefatory note
1. Early years
2. First period of Pope's literary career
3. Pope's Homer
4. Pope at Twickenham
5. The war with the Dunces
6. Correspondence
7. The Essay on Man
8. Epistles and satires
9. The end.