The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Vol. 1: To Which Is Prefixed

Alexander Pope

ISBN 10: 152765379X / ISBN 13: 9781527653795

Published by Forgotten Books, 2024

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Print on Demand. This book is a fascinating and influential account of English poetry from its Middle English origins in Chaucer to the early 18th century. The author explores how poets such as Spenser, Milton, and Dryden developed and refined the English language as a medium for poetry, and charts the changing role of the poet in society. The book also examines the broader historical and cultural contexts in which these poets wrote, shedding light on how the development of English poetry has been shaped by social, political, and religious factors. The author's insights will be of great interest to anyone interested in the history of English literature and the English language. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. Seller Inventory # 9781527653795_0

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Title: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Vol. 1...

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Publication Date: 2024

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope<br/><br/>The education of our great author was attended with circumstances very singular, and some of them extremely unfavourable; but the amazing force of his genius fully compensated the want of any advan tage in his earliest instruction. He owed the know ledge of his letters to an aunt; and having learned very early to read, took great delight in it, and taught himself to write by copying after printed books, the characters of which he would imitate to great perfection. He began to compose verses far ther back than he could well remember; and at eight years of age, when he was put under one Taverner, a priest, who taught him the rudiments of the Latin and Greek tongues at the same time, he met with Ogilby's Homer, which gave him great delight; and this was increased by Sandy's Ovrd. The raptures which these authors, even in the disguise of such translations, then yielded him, were so strong, that he spoke of them with pleasure ever after. From Mr. Taverner's tuition he was sent to a private school at Twyford, near Winchester, where he continued about a year, and was then removed to another near Hyde Park Corner; but was so unfortunate as to lose under his two last masters what he had acquired under the first.