Poet and the Publisher
«‘Drawing on deep familiarity with the period and its personalities, Pat Rogers has given us a witty and richly detailed account of the ongoing war between the greatest poet of the eighteenth century and its most scandalous publisher. Cleverly presented as the trial of Pope v. Curll, with scores of documents as “exhibits” and with posterity as jury, the narrative fully justifies the author’s comment that “Pope and Curll are both inherently funny.”’ – Leo Damrosch, author of the bestselling The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age»
The quarrel between the poet Alexander Pope and the publisher Edmund Curll has long been a notorious episode in the history of the book, when two remarkable figures with a gift for comedy and an immoderate dislike of each other clashed publicly and without restraint. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Reaktion Books
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781789144161
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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«‘Drawing on deep familiarity with the period and its personalities, Pat Rogers has given us a witty and richly detailed account of the ongoing war between the greatest poet of the eighteenth century and its most scandalous publisher. Cleverly presented as the trial of Pope v. Curll, with scores of documents as “exhibits” and with posterity as jury, the narrative fully justifies the author’s comment that “Pope and Curll are both inherently funny.”’ – Leo Damrosch, author of the bestselling The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age»