num_pages: 978
description: Winner of the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa and the Robert Kirsch Award of the Los Angeles Times.The noted Yale scholar and critic offers a complete biography of the great eighteenth-century poet, elucidating his skills as a doubly disadvantaged individual and his triumphs as a poet and spokesman for his times.
language: English
title: Alexander Pope: A Life
titlecomplete: Alexander Pope: A Life
genres: Biography, History, 18th Century
ratings_count: 29
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Biography
publisher: Yale University Press