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A political biography of Alexander Pope
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This is the first study to assess the entire career of Alexander Pope (1688-1744) in relation to the political issues of his time.While much has been written on the politics of Pope, most of this relates to his possible Jacobite sympathies and his involvement in the opposition to Sir Robert Walpole in the 1730s.
Pickering and chatto political biography of rick
This new biography covers the whole range of the poet's life, starting with his family background and the extended Catholic circle in which he continued to move, an important factor in the making of The Rape of the Lock. Analysis of subscription lists for the Homer and Shakespeare ventures makes possible a more rounded account of his connections among the political class.
The book shows for the first time the continuing impact on his work of party divisions in London (deriving partly from his father's career as a merchant) and offers a fresh reading of The Dunciad as a commentary on City