330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2002: Making use of the growing body of research in recent years on the nature of creativity, Netta Goldsmith here presents a new view of the famous poet whose personality has long frustrated scholars as elusive. Goldsmith tells the story of Pope's life so as to show the factors-personal and public, psychological and social-which shaped his character and enabled... Read more
Contents: General editor's preface; Preface; Prologue: Images of Pope; How Alexander Pope became a poet: On being a Papist; The ’itch of poetry’; The apprentice; How Pope courted the judges: Launching a career; A poet’s manifesto; Making use of ’ev’ry Friend - and ev’ry Foe’; On being original; Support groups; Fighting the Opposition: Attack - the best method of defence: strategies; Homer’s pension; A poet and war; The art of love; The wrong place at the wrong time: Loss; Conspiracies; Failure all round; Pope recreates himself: The return; Into the arena; Bolingbroke: the ’master of the song’?; A new battlefield; The credentials of a moralist; Pope and the women; What the letters tell us; The patriots: a game of hide and seek; Exit a political activist; Looking to posterity; A closet editor; Pope’s ’bulldog’; Putting things in order; The death of a public figure; Afterword: Pope past and present; Bibliography; Index.
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Netta Murray Goldsmith
