Alexander HuberWe have added facsimiles of Mary Collier's #Poems on Several Occasions (1762) and Ambrose Philips' #Pastorals (1708, in Dryden's Poetical Miscellanies), to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive.
Open Book Publishers📢 New Book Alert!
📚 '‘Wit’s Wild Dancing Light’: Reading the Poems of #AlexanderPope' by William Hutchings is now available!
This book offers a chronological journey through #Pope's poetic masterpieces, from #Pastorals to the #Dunciad.
👉Each of the 26 chapters provides a close and insightful look, demonstrating how close reading can generate an understanding of a whole #poem and how #criticalappraisal can build into a creative survey of an entire #poetic career.
Scholarly yet accessible, this book is a must-read for #scholars, #students, and anyone enchanted by #Pope's timeless #poetry.
‘Wit’s Wild Dancing Light’: Reading the Poems of Alexander Pope
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.