'Wit's Wild Dancing Light' Reading the Poems of Alexander Pope

• Auteur principal: Hutchings, William (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Cambridge Open Book Publishers 2023
• Sujets: Literary theory; Teaching of a specific subject; Literary essays; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Alexander Pope;Eighteenth-century English poetry;Chronological reading;Critical appraisal;Age of Enlightenment
• Accès en ligne: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Résumé

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.

Description matérielle

1 electronic resource (314 p.)

ISBN

OBP.0372
9781800643000
9781800643017
9781800646735
9781800644144
9781800644151

Accès

Open Access