Tibbles
Barbara Everett, 17 October 1985
Pope’s ‘Essay on Man’
by A.D. Nuttall.
Allen and Unwin, 250 pp., £15, February 1984,0 04 800017 5 Show More
by A.D. Nuttall.
Allen and Unwin, 250 pp., £15, February 1984,
The Last and Greatest Art: Some Unpublished Poetical Manuscripts of Alexander Pope
by Maynard Mack.
Associated University Presses, 454 pp., £48.95, June 1984,0 87413 183 9 Show More
by Maynard Mack.
Associated University Presses, 454 pp., £48.95, June 1984,
The New Oxford Book of 18th-Century Verse
by Roger Lonsdale.
Oxford, 870 pp., £15, November 1984,0 19 214122 8 Show More
by Roger Lonsdale.
Oxford, 870 pp., £15, November 1984,
Collected in Himself: Essays Critical, Biographical and Bibliographical on Pope and Some of his Contemporaries
by Maynard Mack.
Associated University Presses, 569 pp., £26.50, March 1983,0 87413 182 0 Show More
by Maynard Mack.
Associated University Presses, 569 pp., £26.50, March 1983,
“... Tybalt, I have myself always assumed that since Mercutio with cheerful derision calls his enemy ‘King of Cats’, ‘Prince of Cats’, making allusion to rat-catching and the possession of nine lives; and since furthermore Elizabethans appear to have called their Tom-cats, Tib-cats – then the chances are strong that our still-surviving habit of calling ... ”