1st Edition

New Light on Pope With Some Additions to His Poetry Hitherto Unknown

By Norman Ault Copyright 1949
394 Pages
by Routledge

394 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1949, New Light on Pope is a collection of new poems by one of the greatest poets; new facts about his life and work; new judgements on his quarrels; new evidence of his loyalty to his friends; and new solutions of old problems. These discoveries made during twenty years of intermittent research are presented in this volume which has already been declared by a well-known... Read more

1. New judgment  2. Pope’s first miscellany  3. ‘To a Young Lady’  4. The ‘Hadrian’ poems  5. Mr Alexander Pope: Painter  6. Pope and Addison  7. Pope and Rowe  8. The first psalm 9. Verses sent to Mrs. T.B.  10. Pope and Argyle  11. ‘Duke upon Duke’  12. Martha Blount’s birthday poem  13. Help for Gay  14. Pope and Swift  15. Pope’s last miscellany  16. The ‘Character’ of Cloe  17. ‘The Six Maidens’  18. Atterbury’s ‘Last Words’  19. The End of Dennis  20. Pope and Cibber  21. Pope’s ‘Other’ Epitaphs  22. Pope and his dogs  Appendix A. Biographical notes B. A list of abbreviations C. Bibliography of the poem: To Mrs. M.B. on her Birth-day

Biography

Norman Ault was a noted scholar of English poetry of the seventeenth century, and Alexander Pope.