The Poems of Alexander Pope: A One-volume Edition of the Twickenham Text with Selected Annotations

Alexander Pope

Yale University Press, 1963 - Poetry - 850 pages

A splendid presentation of Pope’s poems, excluding only his translations of Homer, this is the only one-volume edition that can lay claim to completeness and accuracy of text. It presents the corpus of Pope’s poetry as printed in the highly praised Twickenham Edition, except for the 1712 version of The Rape of the Lock and other early versions of phrases preserved in the critical apparatus of the six-volume work. Pope’s own notes to his poems are included, as well as a generous selection of the copious annotation in the Twickenham text. This reduced version of the unsurpassed standard edition of Pope will be of great value to all students and teachers of English literature. John Butt, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh University, is general editor of the Twickenham Edition.   "The publishers are surely right in claiming that 'this should for long remain the standard one-volume edition of Pope's poems.' The Twichenham edition . . . has been a splendid achievement, and Professor Butt's distillation of the long labours of his fellow-editors is most commendable."—Times Literary Supplement.

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Review: The Poems of Alexander Pope: A reduced version of the Twickenham Text

User Review  - Jas - Goodreads

Not that everything he wrote is that good, and this does include over 800 pages of it, but that's just it.

Review: The Poems of Alexander Pope: A reduced version of the Twickenham Text

User Review  - Aneece - Goodreads

You're under-loved these days, Mr Pope, but I'll make up in intensity what your fans lack in numbers.

About the author

Satirical poet Alexander Pope was born in London on May 21, 1688. He was educated by private tutors. Many consider Pope to be the greatest poet of his time, and he also wrote commentaries and translations, he is best known for such poems as The Rape of the Lock and The Duncaid. Pope was the first English poet to make a substantial amount of money from his writing. Pope died on May 30, 1744.

About the Editors:
John Butt is a specialist lexicographer of Spanish, Portuguese, and German. He has contributed to a large number of projects each language. Christine Lea is a highly experienced lexicographer of Spanish and English.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Poems of Alexander Pope: A One-volume Edition of the Twickenham Text with Selected Annotations; A Yale Paperbound
• Author: Alexander Pope
• Editor: John Everett Butt
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Yale University Press, 1963
• ISBN: 0300000308, 9780300000306
• Length: 850 pages
• Subjects: Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh