Book Reviews

Kevin Boyle and Tom Hadden. Penguin,
1986. 127 pp. $4.95

Keith Thomas. Scribner's,
1986. 716 pp. $18.95

Gaston Bachelard. Translated by Arthur
Goldhammer. Beacon, 1986. 190 pp. $9.95

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ALEXANDER POPE: Alexander Pope was born in London in 1688 A Life and died in Twickenham in 1744. The son of Maynard Mack a linen merchant, he was a hunchbacked Norton, 1985 dwarf with tubercular bone cancer. He was 975 pp. $22.50 prone to incessant migraines, and equally prone to enrage fools, since he could not suf- fer them gladly. He was also the greatest poet of his era, one of the three or four tow- ering eminences in the history of English lit- erature,...

Maynard Mack Norton, 1985 975 pp. $22.50

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