Tuesday, February 3, 2009

swift and pope

Title page from the first edition of Gulliver's Travels.

Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift (Toronto RPO edition).

Swift's portrait, painted 1718.

Tory writers liked and remembered Queen Anne.

A less attractive Hanoverian monarch.

Eighteenth-century Ireland, in the abstract.

Alexander Pope, in an engraving (date unavailable) and in a portrait painted 1742.

Some of Pope's poems (RPO).

An especially "Augustan" title page (to a 1714 collection of poems, many by Pope).

A page from an early edition of The Dunciad.

Arabella Fermor, in an engraving (small image).

A contemporary mock epic.

Swift's "Advice to the Grub-Street Verse Writers," with a nod to Pope.

Being famous.

What contemporary popular genre most resembles Pope's self-presentations?

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