Alexander Pope: Tradition and Identity

By John Paul Russo

The author's main concern is the interaction of Pope's growing sense of his own identity with his admiration and emulation of great writers of the past. He sympathetically portrays basic biographical facts that contributed to Pope's identity as man and as poet, among them his physical deformity, his constant illnesses, his subjection to anti-Catholic bias, and his political alienation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674015207
• ISBN13: 9780674015203
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.6" x 7.9"