Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope and the Curious Case of Modern Scholarship and the Vanishing Text

An appetite for ambivalence: Pope studies in the twenty‐first century

“…New editorial attention to Pope's prose and his letters is especially overdue. It is to be hoped that Oxford's volumes will respond to recent scholarship by Raymond Stephanson () that has shown how George Sherburn's seminal 1956 publication of the poet's correspondence inadvertently obscured from view the texts as they were prepared by Pope and published in his own time.…”