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Ed. The Wordsworth Poetry Library, 1995. Size 20 x 13 cm. With an Introduction by Andrew Crozier, and Bibliography. State: Used, like new. 408 pages
Alexander Pope is the foremost English poet of the Augustan age, and the first of the modern epoch. Although his poems are
beautifully constructed, their apparent formality cannot hide the exciting sense of performance which is both lively and articulate.
The elegance of the age is reflected in the form of Pope’s poetry, but he is incapable of disguising the biting wit and wounding satire of which he was a master. He was both a political and a philosophical poet of astonishing variety.
The Dunciad is a sustained invective against the dullness of the age, The Rape of the Lock a comic mock-heroic masterpiece, while the Essay on Man is an elegant exposition of man’s place in nature, and is full of insight and witty aphorism
that is curiously appealing as the millennium approaches.
CONTENTS
EARLY POEMS
Ode on Solitude
To the Author of a Poem entitled ‘Successio
IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS
done by the Author in his Youth
I- Chaucer
II- Spenser – The Ailey
III- Waller – On a Lady Singing to her Lute
– On a Fan of the Author’s Design
IV- Cowley – The Garden
– Weeping
V- Earl of Rochester – On Silence
VI- Earl of Dorset – Artemisia
– Phryne
VII- Dr Swift – The Happy Life of a Country Parson
PASTORALS
Spring: the First Pastoral, or Damon
Summer: the Second Pastoral, or Alexis
Autumn: the Third Pastoral, or Hylas and AEgon
Winter: the Fourth Pastoral, or Daphne
WINDSOR FOREST
MESSIAH – A Sacred Eclogue
THE TEMPLE OF FAME
ODE ON ST CECILIA’S DAY
TWO CHORUSES TO THE TRAGEDY OF BRUTUS
CHORUS TO ATHENIANS
CHORUS TO YOUTHS AND VIRGINS
THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL
ELEGY To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
PROLOGUE TO MR ADDISON’S TRAGEDY OF CATO
AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM
THE RAPE OF THE LOCK
Dedication to Mrs Arabella Fermor
Canto I
Canto II
Canto III
Canto IV
Canto V
ELOISA TO ABELARD
EPISTLES
To Mr Addison
To Robert Earl of Oxford, and Earl Mortimer
To James Craggs, Esq.
To Mr Jervas
To Miss Blount
To the Same
To Mrs M. B. on her Birthday
To Mr Thomas Southern
To Mr John Moore
To Mr C., St James’s Place
EPITAPHS
I- On Charles, Earl of Dorset
II- On Sir William Trumbull
III- On the Hon. Simon Harcourt
IV- On James Craggs, Esq.
V- Intended for Mr Rowe
VI- On Mrs Corbet
VII- On the Monument of the Hon. Robert Digby and his Sister Mary
VIII- On Sir Godfrey Kneller
IX- On General Henry Withers
X- On Mr Elijah Fenton
XI- On Mr Gay
XII- Intended for Sir Isaac Newton
XIII- On Dr Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester
XIV- On Edmund, Duke of Buckingham
XV- For one who would not be buried in Westminster Abbey
XVI- Another, on the Same
XVII- On Two Lovers Struck Dead by Lightning
THE DUNCIAD
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
ESSAY ON MAN
Epistle I
Epistle II
Epistle III
Epistle IV
THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER
MORAL ESSAYS
Epistle I To Sir Richard Temple, Lord .Cobham
Epistle II To a Lady
Epistle III To Allen, Lord Bathurst
Epistle IV To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington
SATIRES
Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
Satires and Epistles of Horace Imitated
-Satire I To Mr Fortescue
-Satire II Book II To Mr Bethel
-Epistle I Book I To Lord Bolingbroke
-Epistle VI Book I To Mr Murray
-Epistle I Book II To Augustus
-Epistle II Book II
The Satires of Dr John Donne, Dean of St Paul’s, Versified
-Satire II
-Satire IV
Epilogue to the Satires
-Dialogue I
-Dialogue II
Imitations of Horace
-Book I Epistle VII
-Book II Satire VI
-Book IV Ode I To Venus
-Part of the Ninth Ode of the Fourth Book
On receiving from the Right Hon. the Lady Francis Shirley a Stbndish and two Pens
1740: A Fragment of a Poem
MISCELLANIES
Argus
Impromptu to Lady Winchelsea
Epilogue td Mr Rowe’s ‘Jane Shore’
Prologue to ‘Three Hours after Marriage’
Prologue designed for Mr D’Urfey’s Last Play
Prologue to Thomson’s ‘Sophonisba’
Occasioned by some Verses of
His Grace the Duke of Buckingham
Macer: a Character
Umbra
Sandys’ Ghost
The Translator
The Three Gentle Shepherds
The Challenge
Lines sung by Duras-Tanti, when she took her leave of the English Stage
What is Prudery?
On a certain Lady at Court
A farewell to London
To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Extemporaneous Lines
To Mr Gay
Lines written in Windsor Forest
Erinna
On his Grotto at Twickenham
On the Countess of Burlington cutting paper
The Looking-Glass
Lines on a Grotto at Crux-Easton, Hants
Song, by a Person of Quality
Verses left by Mr Pope
A Prologue
The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch for the Loss of Grildrig
Mary Gulliver to Captain Lemuel Gulliver
To Quinbus Flestrin, the Man-mountain
Hymn
To the Right Hon. the Earl of Oxford
Translation of a Prayer of Brutus
Lines in Evelyn’s Book of Coins
Lines on Swift’s Ancestors
Lines to Lord Bathurst
EPIGRAMS
On Mrs Tofts, a celebrated Opera-singer
On the Feuds about Handel and Bononcini
Epigram
Epigram from the French
Epitaph
Epitaph
The Balance of Europe
To a Lady with ‘The Temple of Fame’
On the Toasts of the Kit-Cat Club, Anno 1716
A Dialogue, 1717
On Drawing of the Statues of Apollo, Venus, and Hercules, made for Pope by Sir Godfrey Kneller
Upon the Duke of Marlborough’s House at Woodstock
On a Picture of Queen Caroline, drawn by Lady Burlington
On Bentley’s Milton
On certain Ladies
Celia
Epigram
Verbatim from Boileau
Bishop Hough
Epigram
Epigram
INDEX OF POEM TITLES
INDEX OF FIRST LINES