Pope Bibliography

The list of "further reading" in Rogers's edition of Pope is relatively up-to-date. The one unavoidable major work on Pope is the biography by Maynard Mack (1985), which provides a narrative of considerable detail, although at times one might find it too sympathetic to Pope. Among editions, the "Twickenham" edition (Yale and Methuen) and the edition of the correspondence by Sherburn are standard. The following are major studies of particular relevance to The Dunciad.

Bogel, Frederic V. "Dulness Unbound: Rhetoric and Pope's Dunciad." PMLA 97.5 (October 1982): 844-55.

Broich, Ulrich. The Eighteenth Century Mock-Heroic Poem. Trans. David Henry Wilson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Colomb, Gregory G. The Poetics of the Augustan Mock-Epic. University Park: Pennsylvania University Press, 1992.

Damrosch, Leopold. "Pope's Dunciad," in Teaching Eighteenth-Century Poetry, ed. Christopher Fox. New York, AMS Press, 1990.

Deutsch, Helen, Resemblance and Disgrace: Alexander Pope and the Deformation of Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Foxon, David F. Pope and the Early Eighteenth-Century Book Trade. Rev. and ed. James McLaverty. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.

Ingram, Allan. Intricate Laughter in the Satire of Swift and Pope. Basingstoke: Macmillan. 1986.

Jackson, Wallace and R. Paul Yoder, eds. Approaches to Teaching Pope's Poetry. New York: Modern Language Association, 1993.

Jones, Emrys. "Pope and Dulness." Proceedings of the British Academy 54 (1968): 231-63; rpt. in Mack and Winn.

Kinsley, William. "The Dunciad as Mock-Book." Huntington Library Quarterly 35 (1971): 29-47; Rpt. in Mack and Winn.

Mack, Maynard, ed. Essential Articles for the Study of Alexander Pope. Hampden, CT: Archon, 1964.

Mack, Maynard and James A. Winn. Pope: Recent Essays by Several Hands. Hamden, CT: Archon, 1980.

Noggle, James.  The Skeptical Sublime: Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.  [Includes a chapter on the Dunciad.]

Parker, Blanford.  The Triumph of Augustan Poetics: English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.  [The chapter on "Pope and mature Augustinianism" includes sections on The Rape of the Lock and on "Pope's spatial art."]

Rogers. Pat. An Introduction to Pope. London: Methuen, 1975.

Rumbold, Valerie, ed. Alexander Pope: The Dunciad in Four Books (1743). Harlow, Essex: Longman, 1999.

Sherburn, George. "The Dunciad, Book IV." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 24 (1944): 174-90. Rpt. in Mack (1964).

Sitter, John E. The Poetry of Pope's Dunciad. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1971.

Vander Meulen, David L., ed. Pope's Dunciad of 1728: A History and Facsimile. Charlotte: University Press of Virginia, 1991.

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