Alexander Pope
Subtitle: A Sourcebook (Complete Critical Guide to English Literature)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: June 21, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780415202459
First sentence: Because Pope was not primarily a lyric poet like Donne, or an explorer of private mental experience like Wordsworth, we tend to think of him as essentially a public voice, the satirist of civil follies rather than the analyst of personal emotions.