Poems [Hardcover]

Product Details

• Hardcover: 879 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press; Twickenham ed edition
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300003404
• ISBN-13: 978-0300003406
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,105,151 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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46 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most complete one-volume Pope available, May 3, 1998

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Molly the Cat "Meow" (the USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Poems of Alexander Pope: A reduced version of the Twickenham Text (Paperback)

This one-volume reprint of all the authentic original poems of Alexander Pope, first published in 1963, derives from the Twickenham Edition, the recognized standard text of Pope's poetry. It is exhaustive, even down to containing early versions of lines like the verses on "Atticus" which ended up years later in the "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot," and reprints both the "Tibbald" and "Cibber" versions of the "Dunciad." It also has a great deal of useful editorial annotation, though not so much as to overwhelm or supplant Pope's own text and frequent notes. Highly recommended to all who love Pope's verse.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Worthless Edition of some of the Best Poetry in English, December 6, 2009

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Paul D. Harmon (Daegu, South Korea) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Poems of Alexander Pope: A One-Volume Edition of the Twickenham Text with Selected Annotations (Kindle Edition)

Now, when I say "worthless edition" I do not at all refer to the Twickenham version of Mr. Pope's poetry, which is beyond excellent, but rather to the Kindle version of the Twickenham version, which one might have naively assumed would be the same. As I'm sure others have noticed, books on Kindle sometimes have a few mistakes in them. I do not consider this a very big deal in general, and I'm hardly about to complain about it in the free or ninety-nine cent books.

However, there are literally hundreds and hundreds of confusing errors in the Kindle edition of this book, which absolutely do not appear in its ink-and-paper incarnation. Some of them, such as one letter for another when the text is italicized, are consistent, but most are totally random. I'm familiar enough with the poetry that I'm rarely slowed down by these myself, but anyone who has not carefully read it before will be constantly baffled: an erroneous letter typically forms a different word, a word which makes absolutely no sense in the context, thus forcing you to guess at the real one, a frustrating exercise, to be sure, and one that must be repeated every few pages at the very least.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad Kindle, June 1, 2010

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BW "BW" (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Poems of Alexander Pope: A reduced version of the Twickenham Text (Paperback)

The kindle version is very poorly done. In particular, the notes - essential for following Pope's allusions, many of which were pretty obscure even when they were first published two and a half centuries ago - are jumbled together en mass at the end of the book, without any links to the text. They are essentially unusable, and so is the book. It's not that the publisher didn't know how to link, as there are hyperlinks for the indexes of titles and first lines. But for the all-important notes, that was apparently too much trouble. Funny thing is, they've priced this edition like a professional work, rather than the public domain hackwork that it more nearly resembles.