In this work Mr. Mack explores the tension in Pope's life between Garden and City, between the poet's desire for seclusion and privacy and his concern for political and social issues.

MAYNARD MACK received his BA from Yale University in 1932 and his PHD in 1936. He joined the Department of Egnlish that year as an instructor and has taught there more or less continuously since. From 1962 to 64 he served as Director of the Division of Humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, from 1965 to 68 as Chairman of the Department of English, and he became Sterling Professor in 1965. At present he is a Senior Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities. His publications include essays on eighteenth-century subjects and on Shakespeare, a study of King Lear called King Lear in Our Time, and several of the volumes in the Twickenham Edition of Pope's Poetical Works. He is also editor of the two series, Twentieth Century Views and Twentieth Century Interpretations.