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urn:uuid:c1f46a3f-6fc8-4019-8ab3-e409f3190ad5 03 01 01 urn:uuid:c1f46a3f-6fc8-4019-8ab3-e409f3190ad5 15 9781800644137 06 10.11647/OBP.0372 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 ‘Wit’s Wild Dancing Light’ Reading the Poems of Alexander Pope 1 A01 William Hutchings 01 eng 00 312 03 20 Alexander Pope 12 DSA 93 DSC 10 LIT014000 B2 Literature 04 PR3634 20 Eighteenth-century English poetry B2 European Studies: English and Irish Studies 93 JNU 12 JNU 10 POE005020 20 Chronological reading 12 DNF 93 DS 10 LIT004120 20 Critical appraisal 93 DNL 12 DSBF 20 Age of Enlightenment 03 00 <p>The book is a chronological reading of Alexander Pope’s poems, from the Pastorals (1709) to the four-book Dunciad (1743). Each of the 26 chapters forming the volume selects examples for detailed scrutiny, demonstrating how close reading can generate understanding of a whole poem and how critical appraisal can build into a creative survey of an entire poetic career. The book’s approach is intended to be both scholarly and accessible and 'Wit's Wild Dancing Light' will be of interest to scholars, students and anybody interested in Pope’s masterful poetry.</p> 04 00 About the Author A Note to the Text Introduction: Reading Pope 1. Pastorals 2. Sappho to Phaon 3. An Essay on Criticism 4. Windsor Forest 5. The Rape of the Lock 6. Epistle to Mr Jervas 7. Eloisa to Abelard 8. Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady 9. Homer, The Iliad 10. Epistle to Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer; To Mr Addison; Epitaph on James Craggs, Esq 11. An Essay on Man 12. An Epistle to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington 13. An Epistle to Allen Lord Bathurst 14. An Epistle to Sir Richard Temple, Lord Cobham 15. Epistle to Miss Blount with the Works of Voiture; Epistle to Miss Blount, on her Leaving the Town after the Coronation; An Epistle to a Lady 16. The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated 17. The Second Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated. To Mr Bethel 18. The Second Satire of the First Book of Horace. Imitated in the Manner of Mr Pope 19. Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot 20. The First Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace: To Venus 21. The Second Epistle of the Second Book of Horace Imitated 22. The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace Imitated. To Augustus 23. The Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated. To Mr Murray 24. The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated. To Lord Bolingbroke 25. Epilogue to the Satires: Dialogues I and II 26. The Dunciad Bibliography Index 20 00 Open Access Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers Cambridge, UK 04 01 20231219 13 15 9781800643017 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0372.pdf 99 01 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0372 99 01