Alexander Pope and the traditions of formal verse satire / by Howard D. Weinbrot.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Editorial Notes -- CHAPTER 1. Horace and Juvenal in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- CHAPTER 2. Roman Modes of Proceeding: Classical Satire and Norms in Government -- CHAPTER 3. Boileau: "As Horace did before me, so will I" -- CHAPTER 4. British Modes of Proceeding: National Character and Satiric Forms -- CHAPTER 5. Responses to Pope -- CHAPTER 6. Pope's Epistles to Several Persons: A System of Ethics in the Horatian Way -- CHAPTER 7. The Mingled Muse: Pope's First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated -- CHAPTER 8. An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot: The Education of an Opposition Satirist -- CHAPTER 10. Conclusion -- Translations of French Passages -- Index.

Ranging over the tradition of verse satire from the Roman poets to their seventeenth- and eighteenth-century imitators in England and France, Howard D. Weinbrot challenges the common view of Alexander Pope as a Horatian satirist in a Horatian age. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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