In celebration of its tercentenary, this collection brings together ten eminent scholars with new perspectives on the poem.

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This is the first collection of essays since George Sherburn’s landmark monograph The Early Career of Alexander Pope (1934) to reconsider how the most importa

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How did Alexander Pope become the greatest poet of the eighteenth century? Modern scholarship has typically taken Pope's rise to greatness and subsequent remote