This critical biography places Pope\u2019s life and poetry in the context of the political state of Britain following the Revolution of 1688. It gives close readings of Pope\u2019s major poems, including the less commonly discussed translations of Homer. Frequent resort is made to Pope\u2019s letters, including new items. A final chapter discusses Pope\u2019s literary reputation in the later eighteenth-century.<\/p>\n
This critical biography is a posthumous publication by a Pope scholar of international reputation. It gathers the scholarship and insights of the author\u2019s earlier books and essays on Pope into a final work of new research and a lifetime\u2019s reflection on its subject, aimed at the informed general reader as well as students and professional scholars.<\/p>\n
The book places Pope\u2019s life, friendships, and poetry in the context of the political state of Britain following the Revolution of 1688, the year of the poet\u2019s birth. It is sympathetic to the revisionist history which argues that Jacobitism was a serious and persistent phenomenon, and it brings out more fully than previously the extent of Pope\u2019s contact with Catholic and Jacobite circles in England and abroad, giving this biography a distinctive approach and emphasis. Pope\u2019s friendships, with both Whigs and Tories, with men and women, are brought into relation to the poetry.<\/p>\n
Professor Erskine-Hill gives sensitive close readings of all Pope\u2019s major poems, but also of the less commonly explored, notably the translations of Homer and especially of the Iliad. Frequent resort is made to Pope\u2019s letters, among the finest of the age, including new items. A final chapter discusses Pope\u2019s literary reputation in the later eighteenth-century subsequent to his death.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":4798,"template":"","subject":[36],"browse_by_series":[55],"browse_by_imprints":[],"conference":[],"class_list":["post-4797","books","type-books","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-literature","browse_by_series-18th-century-moments"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/4797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/4797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5577,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/4797\/revisions\/5577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=4797"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_series?post=4797"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_imprints","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_imprints?post=4797"},{"taxonomy":"conference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conference?post=4797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}