Selected Poetry
Selected Poetry

Author: Alexander Pope

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780192834942

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Presents sixteen works by eighteenth-century English poet Alexander Pope, including "An Essay on Criticism," "The Rape of the Lock," and "The Dunciad," and includes explanatory notes and a biographical introduction.

Simple Chinese Astrology
Simple Chinese Astrology

Author: Damian Sharp

Publisher: Conari Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1609251148

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A basic introduction to the ancient system of astrology based on the Chinese lunar calendar from the author of Simple Feng Shui. Introduced by the emperor Huang Ti between 2700 and 2600 B.C.E., Chinese astrology is based on the culture’s lunar calendar, which is made up of five cycles of twelve years each, with a complete cycle taking sixty years. According to legend, Buddha summoned all the animals to come to him before he departed earth, but only twelve came to pay their respects. To honor them, he named a year after each animal in the order that they appeared: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Boar. These became the twelve astrological signs that determine your personality, behavior, and proclivities according to the year and time of day you were born. This age-old practice tells you what to expect—in life, career, and romance—in the coming years. Featuring illustrations and tables, this guide makes this exacting science and art of divination and personal analysis accessible to Western readers.

The Poems of Alexander Pope
The Poems of Alexander Pope

Author: Alexander Pope

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1963-01-01

Total Pages: 884

ISBN-13: 9780300000306

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A splendid presentation of Pope’s poems, excluding only his translations of Homer, this is the only one-volume edition that can lay claim to completeness and accuracy of text. It presents the corpus of Pope’s poetry as printed in the highly praised Twickenham Edition, except for the 1712 version of The Rape of the Lock and other early versions of phrases preserved in the critical apparatus of the six-volume work. Pope’s own notes to his poems are included, as well as a generous selection of the copious annotation in the Twickenham text. This reduced version of the unsurpassed standard edition of Pope will be of great value to all students and teachers of English literature. John Butt, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh University, is general editor of the Twickenham Edition. "The publishers are surely right in claiming that 'this should for long remain the standard one-volume edition of Pope's poems.' The Twichenham edition . . . has been a splendid achievement, and Professor Butt's distillation of the long labours of his fellow-editors is most commendable."—Times Literary Supplement.

The Poems of Alexander Pope
The Poems of Alexander Pope

Author: John Butt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-10

Total Pages: 901

ISBN-13: 113495476X

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The most complete and usable edition of Pope's poetry presenting the corpus of his poetry as printed in the Twickenham edition with Pope's own notes and a selection of the annotations in the other volumes of the Twickenham edition.