Excerpt from The Early Career an Alexander Pope The 'advertisement' prefixed to the volume-announced 'the following History hath been chiefly compiled from ori

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi

Excerpt from Alexander Pope The ideal biographer of Pope, if he ever appears, must be endowed with the qualities of an acute critic and a patient antiquarian; a

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 importa