Bibliographies

Guerinot, J. V. Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744. New York: New York University Press, 1969, 360 p.

Descriptive bibliography of nearly one hundred sixty critical attacks on Pope and his works that appeared during his lifetime.

Lopez, Cecelia L. Alexander Pope: An Annotated Bibliography, 1945-1967. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1970, 154 p.

Lists studies about Pope and his works.

Tobin, James Edward. Alexander Pope: A List of Critical Studies Published from 1895 to 1944. New York: Cosmopolitan Science and Art Service Co., 1945, 30 p.

Secondary bibliography.

Biographies

Mack, Maynard. Alexander Pope: A Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985, 975 p.

Comprehensive biography.

Quenell, Peter. Alexander Pope: The Education of Genius, 1688-1728. New York: Stein and Day, 1968, 278 p.

Biography of Pope's life through the publication of the first edition of The Dunciad.

Sherburn, George. The Early Career of Alexander Pope. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934, 326 p.

Account of Pope's life through 1727.

Criticism

Aden, John M. Pope's Once and Future Kings. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1978, 218 p.

Examines political and satirical themes in Pope's verse published prior to 1728.

Barnard, John, ed. Pope: The Critical Heritage. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973, 544 p.

Excerpted and annotated critical essays on Pope's writings, dating from 1705 to 1782.

Bateson, F. W., and N. A. Joukousky, eds. Alexander Pope: A Critical Anthology. Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1971, 512 p.

Excerpts of representative criticism by and about Pope from 1706 to 1968.

Boyce, Benjamin. The Character Sketches in Pope's Poems. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1962, 141 p.

Comparative and evaluative examination of character sketches in Pope's poems.

Brooks, Cleanth. "The Case of Miss Arabella Fermor." In The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry, pp. 74-95. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1947.

Detailed explication of The Rape of the Lock that centers on the character Belinda.

Brower, Reuben Arthur. Alexander Pope: The Poetry of Allusion. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978, 368 p.

Examines Pope's attention to form and his recurrent use of literary allusions in his works.

Clark, Donald B. Alexander Pope. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1967, 180 p.

Presents "a coherent, unified interpretation" of Pope's major poems.

Dixon, Peter, ed. Alexander Pope. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1972, 342 p.

Collection of critical essays.

Durant, David S. "Man and Nature in Alexander Pope's Pastorals" Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 XI, No. 3 (Summer 1971): 469-85.

Argues that Pope wrote the Pastorals to explain his future abandonment of the genre.

The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 29, No. 2 (Spring 1988).

Special issue on Pope edited by David B. Morris. Includes essays by such critics as Morris, Susan Staves, and Carey McIntosh.

Engell, James. "Wealth and Words: Pope's Epistle to Bathurst" Modern Philology 85, No. 4 (May 1988): 433-46.

Examines "two key social systems of signification and value, money and language," in Epistle to Bathurst.

Erskine-Hill, Howard. Pope: "The Dunciad. " London: Edward Arnold, 1972, 72 p.

Historical approach to understanding The Dunciad. Erskine-Hill finds it "a poem so subtle, rich, and at times so surprising, that the critic determined to see his subject in order may find himself engaged almost entirely in unfolding and exploring."

——The Social Milieu of Alexander Pope: Lives, Example, and the Poetic Response. London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975, 344 p.

Study of Pope's poetry in relation to the Augustan society that fostered it.

Ferraro, Julian. "The Satirist, the Text and 'The World Beside': Pope's First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated." Translation and Literature 2 (1993): 37-63.

Provides a close reading of the manuscript materials for Pope's First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated in order to show "a new and revealing account of [Pope's] response to his model."

Francus, Marilyn. "An Augustan's Metaphysical Poem: Pope's Eloisa to Abelard" Studies in Philology LXXXVII, No. 4 (Fall 1990): 476-91.

Argues that Eloisa to Abelard is a hybrid of Augustan and metaphysical models.

Franssen, Paul. "Pope's Janus-Faced Imagery." Dutch Quarterly Review 20, No. 1 (1990): 19-36.

Examines metaphysical imagery in Pope's works.

Guerinot, J. V., ed. Pope: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972, 184 p.

Collection of critical essays that includes such works as "Rhetoric and Poems" by William K. Wimsatt, Jr., "The Cistern and the Fountain: Art and Reality in Pope" by Irvan Ehrenpreis, and "The Satiric Adversary" by John M. Aden.

Hammand, Brean S. Pope. Sussex, England: The Harvester Press, 1986, 218 p.

Study of Pope in which Hammand notes that "the project of [this] book is to extend the direction of recent Pope studies by considering what is often a missing term in historical and scholarly treatments—Pope's ideology."

Ingrassia, Catherine. "Women Writing/Writing Women: Pope, Dulness, and 'Feminization' in the Dunciad." Eighteenth Century Life 14, No. 3 (November 1990): 40-58.

Offers a feminist reading of The Dunciad, concluding that the poem reveals "a symbolically emasculated man's personal and professional anxiety about the increasing power of creative and mercenary male and female writers."

Jackson, Wallace, and R. Paul Yoder, eds. Critical Essays on Alexander Pope. New York: G. K. Hall, 1993, 200 p.

Collects essays on Pope published after 1980. The essays are general in nature and attempt to place Pope in a broader perspective.

Mack, Maynard. "Pope's Copy of Chaucer." Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, edited by René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro, pp. 105-21. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979.

Discusses the influence of Geoffrey Chaucer on Pope and his works.

Mallett, Phillip. "If Pope Be Not a Satirist." Forum for Modem Language Studies XXX, No. 4 (October 1994): 316-28.

Maintains that the moral authority in Pope's verse is implicit in his poetic technique.

Morris, David B. "Virgilian Attitudes in Pope's Windsor-Forest" Texas Studies in Literature and Language XV, No. 2 (Summer 1973): 231-50.

Discusses the influence of Virgil on Pope's early verse, particularly Windsor-Forest.

Nash, Richard. "Translation, Editing, and Poetic Invention in Pope's Dunciad" Studies in Philology LXXXIX, No. 4 (Fall 1992): 470-84.

Argues that a more "literal conception" of Pope's later versions of The Dunciad "can shed light on Pope's satire of Lewis Theobald."

Nicholson, Colin, ed. Alexander Pope: Essays for the Tercentenary. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988, 264 p.

Collection of essays by such critics as H. T. Dickinson, Peter France, and Alastair Fowler.

Payne, Deborah C. "Pope and the War against Coquettes; or, Feminism and The Rape of the Lock Reconsidered—Yet Again." The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 32, No. 1 (Spring 1991): 3-24.

Feminist reading of The Rape of the Lock in which Payne focuses on gender fragmentation.

Piper, William Bowman. "The Conversational Poetry of Pope." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 X, No. 3 (Summer 1970): 505-24.

Examines Pope's conversational poems, written between 1730 and 1738, concluding, "taken as a group, [these conversational poems] give dramatic illustrations of the possibilities and the limitations of public discourse."

Pollak, Ellen M. "Pope and Sexual Difference: Woman as Part and Counterpart in the 'Epistle to a Lady.'" Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 24, No. 3 (Summer 1984): 461-81.

Discusses Pope's depiction of women in Epistle to a Lady.

Quinsey, K. M. "'Am'rous Charity': Eros and Agape in Eloisa to Abelard" Renascence XXXIX, No. 3 (Spring 1987): 407-21.

Maintains that Eloisa to Abelard plays out the conflict between love of man and love of God.

Rogers, Pat. An Introduction to Pope. London: Methuen and Co., 1975, 180 p.

Overview of Pope and his works.

——"Rhythm and Recoil in Pope's Pastorals." Eighteenth-Century Studies 14, No. 1 (Fall 1980): 1-17.

Outlines and explains repetitive effects used in the Pastorals.

——"Wit, Love, and Sin: Pope's Court Ballad Reconsidered." Eighteenth Century Encounters: Studies in Literature and Society in the Age of Walpole, pp. 56-74. Sussex, England: The Harvester Press, 1985.

Reconsiders the Court Ballads, concluding that "the poem is shot through with contemporary references" and is "more daring and more verbally inventive than previous accounts have allowed."

——Essays on Pope. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 263 p.

Collects essays written on Pope over a twenty-five year period.

Root, Robert Kilburn. The Poetical Career of Alexander Pope. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938, 248 p.

Examination of Pope's most notable poetic works.

Rousseau G. S., and Pat Rogers, eds. The Enduring Legacy: Alexander Pope Tercentenary Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, 286 p.

Essay collection that includes works by such critics as David B. Morris, Pat Rogers, and Howard Erskine-Hill.

Rudd, Niall. "Variation and Inversion in Pope's Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" Essays in Criticism XXXIV, No. 3 (July 1984): 216-28.

Examines classical influences in Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, including the works of Horace and Lucilius.

Smith, Molly, "The Mythical Implications in Pope's 'Epistle to a Lady.'" Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 27, No. 3 (Summer 1987): 427-36.

Discusses Pope's portrayal of Martha Blount in Epistle to a Lady.

Solomon, Harry M. "Reading Philosophical Poetry: A Hermeneutics of Metaphor for Pope's Essay on Man." The Philosopher as Writer: The Eighteenth Century, edited by Robert Ginsberg, pp. 122-39. Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1987.

Analysis of Pope's use of metaphor in An Essay on Man.

Spacks, Patricia Meyer. "Fictions of Passion: The Case of Pope." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 20 (1990): 43-53.

Discusses Pope's exploration of "ruling passion" in An Essay on Man and Epistles to Several Persons.

Stephanson, Raymond. "The Love Song of Young Alexander Pope: Allusion and Sexual Displacement in the Pastorals" English Studies in Canada XVII, No. 1 (March 1991): 21-35.

Examines psychological subtexts in the Pastorals.

Szilagyi, Stephen. "Pope's 'shaggy Tap'stry': A Discourse on History." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 20 (1990): 183-95.

Analyzes the relationship between literature and history in The Dunciad.

Terry, Richard. "''Tis a sort of …Tickling': Pope's Rape and the Mock-heroics of Gallantry." Eighteenth Century Life 18, No. 2 (May 1994): 59-74.

States that The Rape of the Lock's "representation of female life articulates a pervasive male discourse of gallantry or 'fair-sexing,' a discourse that contains mock-heroic properties."

Thompson, James. "Pope's Unfortunate Lady and Elegiac Form." Rhetorics of Order/Ordering Rhetorics in English Neoclassical Literature, edited by J. Douglas Canfield and J. Paul Hunter, pp. 120-33. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989.

Argues that differences between Pope's "Unfortunate Lady" and previous and subsequent funeral elegies can be ascribed, at least in part, "to changing concepts of the elegy as an ordering rhetoric."

Tillotson, Geoffrey. "Pope and the Common Reader." The Sewanee Review LXVI, No. 1 (January-March 1958): 44-78.

Examines how Pope's wish to reach the common reader affected "the choice of his medium and the art with which he used it."

Weber, Harold. '"One Who Held It in Disdain': The Tragic Satirist in Pope's Final Words." Criticism XXII, No. 1 (Winter 1980): 25-39.

Concludes that Pope's tone in "Epilogue to the Satires," is substantially different than in the rest of the Imitations of Horace.

…. "The Comic and the Tragic Satirist in Pope's imitations of Horace." Papers on Language and Literature 16, No. 1 (Winter 1980): 65-80.

Examines Pope's unconventional treatment of comic and tragic themes in his Imitations of Horace.

Wheeler, David. "'So Easy to Be Lost': Poet and Self in Pope's The Temple of Fame." Papers on Language and Literature 29, No. 1 (Winter 1993): 3-27.

Argues that The Temple of Fame is the only poem from Pope's early career that is "psychologically self-revelatory."

White, Douglas H., and Thomas P. Tierney. "An Essay on Man and the Tradition of Satires on Mankind." Modern Philology 85, No. 1 (August 1987): 27-41.

Discusses satirical elements in An Essay on Man, concluding that the work "does what it does through the agency of wit rather than dialectic."

Williams, Aubrey L. Pope's Dunciad: A Study of Its Meaning. London: Methuen and Co., 1955, 162 p.

Historical and interpretive study of the development of The Dunciad through its four major editions.

…. "A Hell for 'Ears Polite': Pope's Epistle to Burlington." ELH 51, No. 3 (Fall 1984): 479-503.

Examines unity of theme and vision in Epistle to Burlington.

Woodman, Thomas. "Pope: The Papist and the Poet." Essays in Criticism XLVI, No. 3 (1996): 219-33.

Discusses how Pope's religious background influence his works.

Additional coverage of Pope's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Gale Group: Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography 1660-1789; Discovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British Edition; DISCovering Authors: Canadian Edition; DISCovering Most-Studied Authors; DISCovering Poets; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 95, 101, and World Literature Criticism.