Alexander Pope in the reign of Queen Anne : reconsiderations of his early career / edited by A.D. Cousins and Daniel Derrin.

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Pope, Verrio and Hampton Court: The Stuart Monarch in the Rape of the Lock and Windsor-Forest -- 2 Sheep and Wolf: Pope, Philips and the Pastorals Revisited -- 3 Pope's Precocious Decade: Models of Literary History for the Age of Queen Anne -- 4 'Alexander, Have a Care': Anne Finch as Alexander Pope's Mentor -- 5 Hyperbolic Worlds: The Legacy of Edmund Waller in Alexander Pope's the Rape of the Lock

6 Pope and Chaucer: Reconstructing the House of Fame in the Reign of Queen Anne -- 7 The Labours of the Passions in the Rape of the Lock -- 8 Painting Deformed Portraits: Humour in Pope's Early Prose -- 9 Renewing the Classics in the Age of Queen Anne: The Making of Pope's Iliad -- Conclusion -- Index

This is the first collection of essays since George Sherburn's landmark monograph The Early Career of Alexander Pope (1934) to reconsider how the most important and influential poet of eighteenth-century Britain fashioned his early career. The volume covers Pope's writings from across the reign of Queen Anne and just beyond. It focuses, in particular, on his interaction with the courtly culture constellated round the Queen. It examines, for instance, his representations of Queen Anne herself, his portrayals of politics and patronage under her reign, his negotiations with current literary theory, with the classical tradition, with chronologically distant yet also contemporaneous English poets, with current thought on the passions, and with membership of a religious minority. In doing so, it comprehensively reconsiders anew the ways in which Pope, increasingly supportive of Anne's rule and mindful of the Virgilian rota, sought at first to realise his authorial aspirations.

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