Approaches to Teaching Pope's Poetry

Pope's poetry, the editors of this collection suggest, "provides...an index to social criticism, to enlightened religious belief, to witty and vivacious writing, and to the bearing of much of the Western literary tradition on the eighteenth-century mind." Approaches to Teaching Pope's Poetry strives to make Pope's genius and versatility shine in the classroom. Like other books in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, this one is divided into two parts. The first part, "Mat…