Pope, Alexander 1688-1744
Overview
| Works: | 8,667 works in 31,963 publications in 13 languages and 388,530 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Poetry Criticism, interpretation, etc Epic poetry History Epistolary poetry Philosophical poetry Didactic poetry Biographies Literary criticism Fiction |
| Subject Headings: | Poets, English |
| Roles: | Author, Translator, Librettist, Editor, Other, Dedicatee, Creator, Arranger, Honoree, Contributor, wpr, Speaker, Lyricist, Compiler, Author of introduction, edi, Bibliographic antecedent, Author in quotations or text abstracts, Illustrator, Composer, Performer, 070, Recipient, Conductor, wat, Photographer, 901 |
| Classifications: | PA4025.A5, 821.5 |
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Most widely held works about
Alexander Pope
- Poets thinking : Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats by Helen Vendler( )
- The skeptical sublime : aesthetic ideology in Pope and the Tory satirists by James Noggle( )
- Alexander Pope the poet in the poems by Dustin H Griffin( )
- Alexander Pope : a life by Maynard Mack( Book )
- Alexander Pope and the traditions of formal verse satire by Howard D Weinbrot( )
- Pope and the destiny of the Stuarts : history, politics, and mythology in the age of Queen Anne by Pat Rogers( )
- The rape of the text : reading and misreading Pope's Essay on man by Harry M Solomon( )
- The rape of the lock by Alexander Pope( )
- Alexander Pope: the poetry of allusion by Reuben A Brower( Book )
- Alexander Pope; the education of genius, 1688-1728 by Peter Quennell( Book )
- My study windows by James Russell Lowell( Book )
- Alexander Pope by Leslie Stephen( Book )
- Pope : a collection of critical essays by J. V Guerinot( Book )
- On the poetry of Pope by Geoffrey Tillotson( Book )
- Quests of difference : reading Pope's poems by G. Douglas Atkins( )
- The complete critical guide to Alexander Pope by Paul Baines( )
- The garden and the city : retirement and politics in the later poetry of Pope, 1731-1743 by Maynard Mack( Book )
- The early career of Alexander Pope by George Sherburn( Book )
- A political biography of Alexander Pope by Pat Rogers( )
- "This long disease, my life" : Alexander Pope and the sciences by Marjorie Hope Nicolson( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Alexander Pope
An essay on man by
Alexander Pope(
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690 editions published between 1376 and 2020 in 11 languages and held by 7,673 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."--
690 editions published between 1376 and 2020 in 11 languages and held by 7,673 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 Iliad of Homer by
Homer(
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536 editions published between 1715 and 2015 in English and Undetermined and held by 4,819 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Most importantly, this edition makes available for the first time in paperback Pope's notes in their entirety, enabling us to observe one poetic genius illuminate the work of another
536 editions published between 1715 and 2015 in English and Undetermined and held by 4,819 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Most importantly, this edition makes available for the first time in paperback Pope's notes in their entirety, enabling us to observe one poetic genius illuminate the work of another
The Odyssey of Homer by
Homer(
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332 editions published between 1725 and 2013 in English and held by 3,509 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains Alexander Pope's translation of The Odyssey along with discussions about Pope's translation and notes about the Odyssey
332 editions published between 1725 and 2013 in English and held by 3,509 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains Alexander Pope's translation of The Odyssey along with discussions about Pope's translation and notes about the Odyssey
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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159 editions published between 1788 and 1981 in English and held by 2,862 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
159 editions published between 1788 and 1981 in English and held by 2,862 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The rape of the lock by
Alexander Pope(
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279 editions published between 1714 and 2019 in 8 languages and held by 2,114 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."
279 editions published between 1714 and 2019 in 8 languages and held by 2,114 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."
Odyssey by
Homer(
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105 editions published between 1713 and 2019 in 3 languages and held by 2,096 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Chronicles the perilous ten-year journey of Odysseus from the battlefields of Troy to his home in Ithaca
105 editions published between 1713 and 2019 in 3 languages and held by 2,096 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Chronicles the perilous ten-year journey of Odysseus from the battlefields of Troy to his home in Ithaca
The poems of Alexander Pope by
Alexander Pope(
)
65 editions published between 1900 and 2000 in English and French and held by 2,027 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
65 editions published between 1900 and 2000 in English and French and held by 2,027 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Odyssey of Homer : Translated from the Greek, by Alexander Pope, Esq. by
Homer(
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142 editions published between 1753 and 1796 in English and held by 1,899 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
142 editions published between 1753 and 1796 in English and held by 1,899 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An essay on criticism by
Alexander Pope(
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285 editions published between 1711 and 2016 in 7 languages and held by 1,799 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
With an elaborate introductory study
285 editions published between 1711 and 2016 in 7 languages and held by 1,799 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
With an elaborate introductory study
The Odyssey of Homer by
Homer(
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137 editions published between 1752 and 2017 in English and held by 1,727 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
137 editions published between 1752 and 2017 in English and held by 1,727 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
The Iliad : of Homer. Translated by Mr. Pope by
Homer(
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109 editions published between 1718 and 1796 in English and held by 1,609 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
109 editions published between 1718 and 1796 in English and held by 1,609 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The poetical works of Alexander Pope by
Alexander Pope(
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342 editions published between 1716 and 2017 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,515 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Ill. by John Gilbert
342 editions published between 1716 and 2017 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,515 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Ill. by John Gilbert
The Iliad of Homer by
Homer(
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80 editions published between 1756 and 2015 in English and held by 1,430 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
THIS EPIC GREEK POEM, DRAWN FROM LEGENDS OF THE TROJAN WAR, DEALS WITH ACHILLES' WRATH AGAINST AGAMEMNON AND ITS DIRE CONSEQUENCES
80 editions published between 1756 and 2015 in English and held by 1,430 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
THIS EPIC GREEK POEM, DRAWN FROM LEGENDS OF THE TROJAN WAR, DEALS WITH ACHILLES' WRATH AGAINST AGAMEMNON AND ITS DIRE CONSEQUENCES
Memoirs of the extraordinary life, works, and discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus by
Alexander Pope(
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90 editions published between 1725 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 1,379 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In this merciless attack on eighteenth-century society, Alexander Pope expertly satirses the blind reliance on false learning that was then so prevalent. By taking one ambitious father and his determination to do everything in his power to produce a child of genius, Pope exposes the true folly of the men of his age and their absurd veneration of the ancients. And as this hallowed child grows into a man, it becomes clear that instead of being the scholar his father so desired, he is simply the inevitable offspring of a laughable generation of pseudo-intellecturals and literati"--Cover
90 editions published between 1725 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 1,379 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In this merciless attack on eighteenth-century society, Alexander Pope expertly satirses the blind reliance on false learning that was then so prevalent. By taking one ambitious father and his determination to do everything in his power to produce a child of genius, Pope exposes the true folly of the men of his age and their absurd veneration of the ancients. And as this hallowed child grows into a man, it becomes clear that instead of being the scholar his father so desired, he is simply the inevitable offspring of a laughable generation of pseudo-intellecturals and literati"--Cover
The works of Mr. Alexander Pope by
Alexander Pope(
)
128 editions published between 1717 and 2018 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,365 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
128 editions published between 1717 and 2018 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,365 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An essay on criticism : with introductory and explanatory notes by
Alexander Pope(
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10 editions published between 1711 and 2012 in English and held by 1,338 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Despite its somewhat dry title, this text is not a musty prose dissection of literary criticism. Instead, the piece takes the shape of a long poem in which Pope, at the very peak of his powers, takes merciless aim at many of the best-known writers of his day. The epitome of the subtle but lethal wit Alexander Pope has come to be celebrated for, "An Essay on Criticism" is a fun and enlightening read for Brit-lit fans
10 editions published between 1711 and 2012 in English and held by 1,338 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Despite its somewhat dry title, this text is not a musty prose dissection of literary criticism. Instead, the piece takes the shape of a long poem in which Pope, at the very peak of his powers, takes merciless aim at many of the best-known writers of his day. The epitome of the subtle but lethal wit Alexander Pope has come to be celebrated for, "An Essay on Criticism" is a fun and enlightening read for Brit-lit fans
The Iliad : of Homer. Translated from the Greek, by Alexander Pope, Esq by
Homer(
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78 editions published between 1763 and 1792 in English and held by 1,329 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
78 editions published between 1763 and 1792 in English and held by 1,329 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An essay on man : In four epistles. By Alexander Pope Esq by
Alexander Pope(
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94 editions published between 1750 and 2018 in English and held by 1,328 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
94 editions published between 1750 and 2018 in English and held by 1,328 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The complete poetical works of Alexander Pope by
Alexander Pope(
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26 editions published between 1900 and 2016 in English and French and held by 1,213 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This book contains poems by Alexander Pope, 18th-century English poet best known for his satirical verse and use of heroic couplet
26 editions published between 1900 and 2016 in English and French and held by 1,213 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This book contains poems by Alexander Pope, 18th-century English poet best known for his satirical verse and use of heroic couplet
The rape of the lock : an heroi-comical poem. In five canto's. Written by Mr. Pope by
Alexander Pope(
)
79 editions published between 1714 and 1723 in English and held by 1,158 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
79 editions published between 1714 and 1723 in English and held by 1,158 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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Related Identities
- Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745 Other Author Contributor
- Homer Other Author Creator
- Homer Author
- Rogers, Pat 1938- Author of introduction Author Editor
- Achilles (Mythological character)
- Mack, Maynard 1909-2001 Other Author Editor
- Dryden, John 1631-1700 Other Librettist Translator Author
- Warburton, William 1698-1779 Other Arranger Annotator Commentator Commentator for written text Author Editor Publisher
- Gay, John 1685-1732 Other Librettist Lyricist Author Contributor Translator
- Arbuthnot, John 1667-1735 Other Lyricist Librettist Contributor Author
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Achilles--(Mythological character) Allusions in literature American poetry Autobiography in literature Battles Birds Carlyle, Thomas, Catholics Chaucer, Geoffrey, City and town life in literature Country life in literature Dickinson, Emily, Emerson, Ralph Waldo, England English poetry English-speaking countries Epic poetry, Greek Great Britain Homer Human beings Iliad (Homer) Intellectual life Learning and scholarship Lincoln, Abraham, Literature and science Odysseus,--King of Ithaca (Mythological character) Odyssey (Homer) Pastoral poetry, English Percival, James Gates, Philosophy, English Poets, English Poets in literature Political poetry, English Politics and literature Pope, Alexander, Quincy, Josiah, Rape of the lock (Pope, Alexander) Retirement in literature Science Scriblerus Club Self in literature Swinburne, Algernon Charles, Thoreau, Henry David, Thought and thinking Verse satire Verse satire, English Whitman, Walt, Winter Yeats, W. B.--(William Butler), Young women
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Alternative Names
Aleksandar Poup
Aleksandar Poup 1688-1744
Aleksanderis Poupas
Aleksandr Pop
Aleksandrs Poups 18. gadsimta angļu dzejnieks un tulkotājs
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope anglický básník, satirik a překladatel
Alexander Pope Brits auteur
Alexander Pope engelsk poet
Alexander Pope englantilainen runoilija
Alexander Pope englischer Dichter, Übersetzer und Schriftsteller
Alexander Pope English poet
Alexander Pope inglise luuletaja
Alexander Pope Penyajak Inggeris
Alexander Pope poeta angielski
Alexander Pope poeta inglés
Alexander Pope poeta inglese
Alexander Pope poète anglais
Baker J.
Baker, J. 1688-1744
Barnivelt Esdras
Barnivelt, Esdras 1688-1744
Hackney Iscariot
Hackney, Iscariot 1688-1744
Hacney, Iscariot
Hacney Iscariot 1688-1744
Pop, Aleksandr
Pop, Alexander 1688-1744
Popas Aleksanderis
Pope.
Pope 1688-1744
Pope A.
Pope A. 1688-1744
Pope, Al 1688-1744
Pope Alessandro
Pope Alessandro 1688-1744
Pope Alexander
Pope, Alexander, I
Pope, Alexandre
Pope Alexandre 1688-1744
Pope the Poet
Popii, Aleksander
Popiĭ, Aleksandr
Popiĭ, Aleksandr 1688-1744
Poup, Aleksander
Poup, Aleksandr
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
Александар Поуп енглески песник
Александер Поуп
Александр Поуп английский поэт
Александър Поуп
Аляксандр Поп
Поп А.
Поп А. 1688-1744
Поп Александр
Попе А
Попе А. 1688-1744
Попе, Александр
Поуп А.
Поуп А. 1688-1744
Ալեքսանդր Փոփ
אלכסנדר פופ
פופ, אלכסנדר 1688-1744
الكسندر 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
Languages
English
(3,777)
French (271)
German (48)
Italian (42)
Latin (10)
Swedish (4)
Japanese (3)
Multiple languages (3)
Greek, Ancient (2)
Portuguese (1)
Icelandic (1)
Spanish (1)
Dutch (1)
French (271)
German (48)
Italian (42)
Latin (10)
Swedish (4)
Japanese (3)
Multiple languages (3)
Greek, Ancient (2)
Portuguese (1)
Icelandic (1)
Spanish (1)
Dutch (1)