Pope, Alexander 1688-1744
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| Works: | 7,004 works in 24,585 publications in 9 languages and 359,958 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Poetry Criticism, interpretation, etc Biography Sources Epic poetry, Greek Study guides Epic poetry Manuscripts Records and correspondence History |
| Subject Headings: | Poets, English |
| Roles: | Author, Translator, Librettist, Editor, Dedicatee, Other, Arranger, Honoree, Contributor, Printer, Lyricist, Speaker, Artist, Compiler, Author of introduction, Bibliographic antecedent, Author in quotations or text abstracts, Illustrator, Creator, Performer, tra, Conductor |
| Classifications: | PA4025.A5, 821.5 |
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Most widely held works about
Alexander Pope
- Alexander Pope : a life by Maynard Mack( Book )
- Alexander Pope by Bonamy Dobrée( Book )
- Alexander Pope; the education of genius, 1688-1728 by Peter Quennell( Book )
- Pope; a collection of critical essays by J. V Guerinot( Book )
- Alexander Pope: the poetry of allusion by Reuben A Brower( Book )
- On the poetry of Pope by Geoffrey Tillotson( Book )
- The early career of Alexander Pope by George Sherburn( Book )
- Alexander Pope by Edith Sitwell( Book )
- Alexander Pope by Donald B Clark( Book )
- Alexander Pope by Leslie Stephen( Book )
- Alexander Pope by Peter Dixon( Book )
- Poets thinking : Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats by Helen Vendler( Book )
- Alexander Pope and the traditions of formal verse satire by Howard D Weinbrot( Book )
- An essay on the genius and writings of Pope by Joseph Warton( Book )
- The complete critical guide to Alexander Pope by Paul Baines( Book )
- Essay on man and other poems by Alexander Pope( Book )
- The poetical works of Alexander Pope by Alexander Pope( Book )
- The rape of the lock by Alexander Pope( Book )
- The skeptical sublime : aesthetic ideology in Pope and the Tory satirists by James Noggle( Book )
- The rape of the text : reading and misreading Pope's Essay on man by Harry M Solomon( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Alexander Pope
Essay on man and other poems by
Alexander Pope(
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626 editions published between 1376 and 2016 in 10 languages and held by 3,100 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
" Voltaire called it "the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language." Rousseau rhapsodized about its intellectual consolations. Kant recited long passages of it from memory during his lectures. And Adam Smith and David Hume drew inspiration from it in their writings. This was Alexander Pope's Essay on Man (1733-34), a masterpiece of philosophical poetry, one of the most important and controversial works of the Enlightenment, and one of the most widely read, imitated, and discussed poems of eighteenth-century Europe and America. This volume, which presents the first major new edition of the poem in more than fifty years, introduces this essential work to a new generation of readers, recapturing the excitement and illuminating the debates it provoked from the moment of its publication. Echoing Milton's purpose in Paradise Lost, Pope says his aim in An Essay on Man is to "vindicate the ways of God to man"...to explain the existence of evil and explore man's place in the universe. In a comprehensive introduction, Tom Jones describes the poem as an investigation of the fundamental question of how people should behave in a world they experience as chaotic, but which they suspect to be orderly from some higher point of view. The introduction provides a thorough discussion of the poem's attitudes, themes, composition, context, and reception, and reassesses the work's place in history. Extensive annotations to the text explain references and allusions. The result is the most accessible, informative, and reader-friendly edition of the poem in decades and an invaluable book for students and scholars of eighteenth-century literature and thought. "
626 editions published between 1376 and 2016 in 10 languages and held by 3,100 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
" Voltaire called it "the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language." Rousseau rhapsodized about its intellectual consolations. Kant recited long passages of it from memory during his lectures. And Adam Smith and David Hume drew inspiration from it in their writings. This was Alexander Pope's Essay on Man (1733-34), a masterpiece of philosophical poetry, one of the most important and controversial works of the Enlightenment, and one of the most widely read, imitated, and discussed poems of eighteenth-century Europe and America. This volume, which presents the first major new edition of the poem in more than fifty years, introduces this essential work to a new generation of readers, recapturing the excitement and illuminating the debates it provoked from the moment of its publication. Echoing Milton's purpose in Paradise Lost, Pope says his aim in An Essay on Man is to "vindicate the ways of God to man"...to explain the existence of evil and explore man's place in the universe. In a comprehensive introduction, Tom Jones describes the poem as an investigation of the fundamental question of how people should behave in a world they experience as chaotic, but which they suspect to be orderly from some higher point of view. The introduction provides a thorough discussion of the poem's attitudes, themes, composition, context, and reception, and reassesses the work's place in history. Extensive annotations to the text explain references and allusions. The result is the most accessible, informative, and reader-friendly edition of the poem in decades and an invaluable book for students and scholars of eighteenth-century literature and thought. "
The rape of the lock by
Alexander Pope(
Book
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379 editions published between 1722 and 2016 in 8 languages and held by 3,044 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Presents a collection of poems by seventeenth-century English poet Alexander Pope, including the title work, a satire of a heroic epic."
379 editions published between 1722 and 2016 in 8 languages and held by 3,044 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Presents a collection of poems by seventeenth-century English poet Alexander Pope, including the title work, a satire of a heroic epic."
The Odyssey of Homer by
Homer(
Book
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242 editions published between 1725 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,377 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A poem recounting the trials of Odysseus as he travels for 10 years to return home after the ten year war whose events were told in the Iliad
242 editions published between 1725 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,377 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A poem recounting the trials of Odysseus as he travels for 10 years to return home after the ten year war whose events were told in the Iliad
An essay on man : in four epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to which is added, the universal prayer by
Alexander Pope(
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161 editions published between 1788 and 1852 in English and held by 1,962 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
161 editions published between 1788 and 1852 in English and held by 1,962 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Poems by
Alexander Pope(
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111 editions published between 1963 and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,435 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This presentation of Pope's poems, excluding only his translations of Homer, is the only one-volume edition that can lay claim to completeness and accuracy of text. It presents the corpus of Pope's poetry as printed in the highly praised Twickenham Edition, except for the 1712 version of The Rape of the Lock and other early versions of phrases preserved in the critical apparatus of the six-volume work. Pope's notes to his poems are included, as well as a generous selection of the copious annotation in the Twickenham text. This reduced version of the unsurpassed standard edition of Pope -- one of the great achievements of modern English scholarship -- will be essential to both students and scholars. The publishers are surely right in claiming that this should for long remain the standard one-volume edition of Pope's poems. The Twickenham edition, now pausing for breath before plunging into the Homer translations, has been a splendid achievement, and Professor Butt's distillation of the long labors of his fellow editors is most commendable. - Back cover
111 editions published between 1963 and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,435 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This presentation of Pope's poems, excluding only his translations of Homer, is the only one-volume edition that can lay claim to completeness and accuracy of text. It presents the corpus of Pope's poetry as printed in the highly praised Twickenham Edition, except for the 1712 version of The Rape of the Lock and other early versions of phrases preserved in the critical apparatus of the six-volume work. Pope's notes to his poems are included, as well as a generous selection of the copious annotation in the Twickenham text. This reduced version of the unsurpassed standard edition of Pope -- one of the great achievements of modern English scholarship -- will be essential to both students and scholars. The publishers are surely right in claiming that this should for long remain the standard one-volume edition of Pope's poems. The Twickenham edition, now pausing for breath before plunging into the Homer translations, has been a splendid achievement, and Professor Butt's distillation of the long labors of his fellow editors is most commendable. - Back cover
Poetical works by
Alexander Pope(
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60 editions published between 1903 and 1990 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,320 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
60 editions published between 1903 and 1990 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,320 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Odyssey of Homer by
Homer(
Book
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237 editions published between 1725 and 2015 in English and held by 1,244 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Odyssey is the sequel to the Illiad in which the Greek hero Odysseus has many adventures in his travels. After the fall of Troy Ulysses (the name the Roman's gave Odysseus) returns to Ithica. During the nine years of the Trojan War and the subsequent eleven years it takes Odysseus to return home, his wife Penelope has to deal with a group of disruptive suitors
237 editions published between 1725 and 2015 in English and held by 1,244 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Odyssey is the sequel to the Illiad in which the Greek hero Odysseus has many adventures in his travels. After the fall of Troy Ulysses (the name the Roman's gave Odysseus) returns to Ithica. During the nine years of the Trojan War and the subsequent eleven years it takes Odysseus to return home, his wife Penelope has to deal with a group of disruptive suitors
The complete poetical works of Alexander Pope by
Alexander Pope(
Book
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21 editions published between 1900 and 2016 in English and French and held by 1,180 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This collection includes Pope's poems, translations of Ovid and Homer, An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, An Essay on Man, and his Moral Essays. Alexander Pope - Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 - 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare
21 editions published between 1900 and 2016 in English and French and held by 1,180 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This collection includes Pope's poems, translations of Ovid and Homer, An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, An Essay on Man, and his Moral Essays. Alexander Pope - Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 - 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare
The poetical works of Alexander Pope by
Alexander Pope(
Book
)
326 editions published between 1716 and 2017 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,165 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Ill. by John Gilbert
326 editions published between 1716 and 2017 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,165 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Ill. by John Gilbert
An essay on criticism by
Alexander Pope(
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300 editions published between 1711 and 2016 in 7 languages and held by 821 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
With an elaborate introductory study
300 editions published between 1711 and 2016 in 7 languages and held by 821 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
With an elaborate introductory study
The works of Alexander Pope by
Alexander Pope(
Book
)
153 editions published between 1717 and 2016 in English and held by 532 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This collection was designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography. This Collection Includes:Alexander Pope BiographyAn Essay on CriticismAn Essay on ManThe Iliad (as Translator) Memoir of Fr. Vincent De Paul; Religious of La Trappe (as Translator) The Odyssey (as Translator) The Poetical Works of Al
153 editions published between 1717 and 2016 in English and held by 532 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This collection was designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography. This Collection Includes:Alexander Pope BiographyAn Essay on CriticismAn Essay on ManThe Iliad (as Translator) Memoir of Fr. Vincent De Paul; Religious of La Trappe (as Translator) The Odyssey (as Translator) The Poetical Works of Al
Alexander Pope by
Bonamy Dobrée(
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37 editions published between 1900 and 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 414 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A biographical and critical study. From a life so crammed with incident, Mr. Dobrée has chosen those facts which seem most to bear on the poet's development in life through art
37 editions published between 1900 and 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 414 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A biographical and critical study. From a life so crammed with incident, Mr. Dobrée has chosen those facts which seem most to bear on the poet's development in life through art
The Iliad by
Homer(
Book
)
93 editions published between 1715 and 1796 in English and held by 393 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
93 editions published between 1715 and 1796 in English and held by 393 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The rape of the lock : an heroi-comical poem. In five canto's by
Alexander Pope(
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82 editions published between 1714 and 1723 in English and held by 351 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
82 editions published between 1714 and 1723 in English and held by 351 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An essay on man : address'd to a friend. Part I by
Alexander Pope(
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86 editions published between 1733 and 1734 in English and held by 350 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
86 editions published between 1733 and 1734 in English and held by 350 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An essay on man by
Alexander Pope(
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130 editions published between 1745 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 241 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The Science of Human Nature is, like all other Sciences, reduced to a few, clear points; There are not many certain Truths in this World. It is therefore in the Anatomy of the Mind, as in that of the Body, more Good will accrue to mankind by attending to the large, open, and perceptible parts, than by studying too much such finer nerves and vessels as will for ever escape our observation. The Essay on Man, to use the Author's own words, is a perfect system of ethics, in which definition he included religion. hence it is that the first Epistle regards man with respect to the Lord and governor of the universe; as the second, with respect to himself; the third, to society, and the fourth to happiness. Having therefore formed and finished his Essay in this view, he was much mortified whenever he found it considered in any other; or as a part and introduction only to a larger work. Concerning the universal prayer, which concludes the Essay, the author composed that prayer as the sum of all, to show that his system was founded in free will and terminated in piety. This edition includes numerous responses and answers to Pope's Essay on man"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)
130 editions published between 1745 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 241 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The Science of Human Nature is, like all other Sciences, reduced to a few, clear points; There are not many certain Truths in this World. It is therefore in the Anatomy of the Mind, as in that of the Body, more Good will accrue to mankind by attending to the large, open, and perceptible parts, than by studying too much such finer nerves and vessels as will for ever escape our observation. The Essay on Man, to use the Author's own words, is a perfect system of ethics, in which definition he included religion. hence it is that the first Epistle regards man with respect to the Lord and governor of the universe; as the second, with respect to himself; the third, to society, and the fourth to happiness. Having therefore formed and finished his Essay in this view, he was much mortified whenever he found it considered in any other; or as a part and introduction only to a larger work. Concerning the universal prayer, which concludes the Essay, the author composed that prayer as the sum of all, to show that his system was founded in free will and terminated in piety. This edition includes numerous responses and answers to Pope's Essay on man"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)
The Iliad of Homer by
Homer(
Book
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47 editions published between 1743 and 1824 in English and held by 151 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
47 editions published between 1743 and 1824 in English and held by 151 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An essay on man by
Alexander Pope(
Book
)
94 editions published between 1745 and 1777 in English and Undetermined and held by 141 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
94 editions published between 1745 and 1777 in English and Undetermined and held by 141 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Iliad of Homer by
Homer(
Book
)
64 editions published between 1763 and 1792 in English and held by 82 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
64 editions published between 1763 and 1792 in English and held by 82 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Alexander Pope by
Edith Sitwell(
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4 editions published between 1930 and 1962 in Undetermined and English and held by 12 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
4 editions published between 1930 and 1962 in Undetermined and English and held by 12 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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Related Identities
- Homer Other Author
- Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745 Author Contributor
- Rogers, Pat 1938- Author of introduction Author Editor
- Achilles (Mythological character)
- Mack, Maynard 1909-2001 Other Author Editor
- Dryden, John 1631-1700 Librettist Translator Author
- Warburton, William 1698-1779 Other Arranger Annotator Commentator for written text Former owner Author Editor Publisher Collector
- Tillotson, Geoffrey 1905-1969 Contributor Author Editor
- Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Author
- Arbuthnot, John 1667-1735 Other Creator Librettist Author
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Alternative Names
Aleksandar Poup
Aleksanderis Poupas
Aleksandr Pop
Aleksandrs Poups 18. gadsimta angļu dzejnieks un tulkotājs
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope Brits auteur
Alexander Pope englischer Dichter, Übersetzer und Schriftsteller
Alexander Pope Penyajak Inggeris
Alexander Pope poeta angielski
Alexander Pope poeta inglese
Alexander Pope poète anglais
Baker, J. 1688-1744
Barnivelt, Esdras 1688-1744
Hackney, Iscariot 1688-1744
Hacney, Iscariot
Hacney Iscariot 1688-1744
Pop, Alexander 1688-1744
Pope.
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Pope A.
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Pope, Al 1688-1744
Pope, Alessandro
Pope Alessandro 1688-1744
Pope Alexander
Pope, Alexander, I
Pope, Alexandre
Pope Alexandre 1688-1744
Pope the Poet
Popiĭ, Aleksandr 1688-1744
Poup, Aleksandr 1688-1744
Scribler, Martin.
Scribler, Martin 1688-1744
Scriblerus 1688-1744
Scriblerus, Martinus.
Scriblerus, Martinus 1688-1744
The select poetical works of Alexander Pope, 1848
Αλεξάντερ Πόουπ Άγγλος ποιητής
Александар Поуп
Александер Поуп
Александр Поуп английский поэт
Александър Поуп
Аляксандр Поп
Поп А
Поп А. 1688-1744
Попе А
Попе А. 1688-1744
Попе, Александр
Поуп А
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אלכסנדר פופ
פופ, אלכסנדר 1688-1744
ألكسندر بوب
الکساندر پوپ
الیگزنڈر پوپ
ئەلێکسەندەر پۆپ
अलेक्ज़ंडर पोप
अलेक्झांडर पोप
আলেকজান্ডার পোপ
ਐਲੈਗਜ਼ੈਂਡਰ ਪੋਪ
அலெக்சான்டர் போப்
అలెగ్జాండర్ పోప్
ಅಲೆಕ್ಸಾಂಡರ್ ಪೋಪ್
അലക്സാണ്ടർ പോപ്പ്
알렉산더 포프
포프, 알렉산더 1688-1744
アレキサンダー・ポープ
ポウプ
ポウプ, アレグザンダー
ポープ, アレグザンダー
亚历山大·蒲柏
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Italian (75)
German (48)
Latin (25)
Dutch (8)
Multiple languages (5)
Swedish (3)
Portuguese (1)
French (222)
Italian (75)
German (48)
Latin (25)
Dutch (8)
Multiple languages (5)
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