Alexander Pope; Tradition and Identity
- ISBN-10
- 0674015207
- ISBN-13
- 9780674015203
- Pages
- 241
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1972
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Authors
- John Paul Russo, Russo John Paul, Professor John Paul Russo
Description
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.
