Copyright

William Hutchings

Published On

2023-12-19

Page Range

pp. 5–20

Language

  • English

Print Length

16 pages

Introduction

  • William Hutchings (author)
Chapter of: ‘Wit’s Wild Dancing Light’: Reading the Poems of Alexander Pope (pp. 5–20)

The Introduction examines, by means of examples, the building blocks of Pope’s poetry: couplets and verse paragraphs. It then briefly surveys some significant genres of his work – satires, verse epistles, imitations – before providing a map of all his poems under the headings of genres and themes. Throughout, some of the stylistic features and syntactic structures he uses (such as chiasmus) are defined and exemplified.

Contributors

William Hutchings

(author)
Honorary Research Fellow at University of Manchester

William Hutchings was formerly Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Director of the Centre for Excellence in Enquiry-Based Learning at the University of Manchester, UK and he is presently Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at that university. He now lectures regularly to public groups locally and nationally. He has a wealth of teaching experience on English Literature courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and is the editor of Andrew Marvell: Selected Poems, the author of The Poetry of William Cowper, and Literary Criticism: A Practical Guide for Students.