Select Bibliography
THE LIFE AND BACKGROUNDGreene, Donald (1970) The Age of Exuberance. Backgrounds
to Eighteenth-Century English Literature, New York:
Random House. A lively introduction.
Mack, Maynard (1985) Alexander Pope: A Life, New Haven
and London: Yale University Press. Voluminously
informative.
Malins, Edward (1966) English Landscaping and Literature
1660– 1840, London: Oxford University Press. Includes a
chapter on ‘Kent, Pope, Burlington and friends’ in which
Pope’s contribution to the subject is clearly presented in its
wider context.
Osborn, James M. (ed.) (1966) Anecdotes, Observations and
Characters of Books and Men by Joseph Spence, 2 vols,
Oxford: Clarendon Press. Includes reports of Spence’s own
conversations with Pope.
Sherburn, George (1934) The Early Career of Alexander
Pope, Oxford: Clarendon Press. Includes a useful account
of early biographers.
EDITIONS OF POPESee also the note on the text following the introduction.
Butt, John (ed.) (1960) Letters of Alexander Pope, London:
Oxford University Press, The World’s Classics. A manageable
selection of the most attractive letters for the general reader.