Collected in Himself: Essays Critical, Biographical, and Bibliographical on Pope and Some of His Contemporaries, Band 1

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University of Delaware Press, 1982 - 569 Seiten
A collection of various essays about Pope and the eighteenth century written by Professor Mack during the past four decades. An appendix includes a finding list of books surviving from Pope's library and a selection of letters by, to, and about Pope, most of them unpublished.
 

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On Reading Pope
17
Introduction to Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
30
Some Observations on His Imagery
37
The Muse of Satire
55
Alexander Pope
65
Et Multa Prior Arte
81
Bibliographical and Textual Studies
91
The First Printing of the Letters of Pope and Swift
93
Further Light on Some Problems of Authorship Bibliography and Text
139
The Sherburn Edition of Popes Correspondence and Its Uses
145
Popes 1717 Preface with a Transcription of the Manuscript Text
159
Popes Copy of Chaucer
179
Introduction to An Essay on Man
195
Introduction to An Essay on Man
197
Introduction to The Translations of Homer
247
A Brief Account of Popes Homer
249

Problems of Bibliography and Text
106
A Manuscript of Popes Imitation of the First Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace
122
Letters of Pope to Atterbury in the Tower
125
Some Annotations in the Second Earl of Oxfords Copies of Popes Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot and Sober Advice from Horace
134
Its Relations to His Life and Work
277
In Pursuit of Pope Four FingerExercises in Biography
301
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Seite 22 - shall not build and another inhabit, they shall not plant and another eat"; and, finally, the lines wherein the exaltation of the city is pictured, the Gentiles with their princes acknowledging its glory and coming from afar by ship and camel, bearing the treasures of the earth:
Seite 40 - and silent grown, I have not yet forgot myself to stone. See the sad waste of all-devouring years, How Rome her own sad sepulchre appears. Such were the notes thy once-lov'd poet sung, Till death untimely stopp'd his tuneful tongue. 13 Me, let the tender Office long engage To rock the Cradle of reposing Age.

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Maynard Mack was born in Hillsdale, Michigan on October 27, 1909. He received a bachelor's degree in 1932 and a doctorate in 1936 from Yale University. He taught at Yale University for 45 years before his retirement in 1978 and was a world-renowned expert on Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, and twentieth century literary criticism. He wrote numerous books including King Lear in Our Time, The Garden and the City, Collected in Himself, The Last and Greatest Art, Alexander Pope: A Life, Prose and Cons: Monologues on Several Occasions, and Everybody's Shakespeare: Reflections Chiefly on the Tragedies. He also served as an editor of The Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope, which has become the standard edition of the poet's work, and he edited several collections of contemporary critical essays. He died on March 17, 2001 at the age of 90.

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