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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

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Author
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
Title
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1
Credits
E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, David King, and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
English poetry -- 18th century
Category
Text
eBook-No.
9413
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9413
Release Date
December 1, 2005
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE — VOL. I. — With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
  2. 2.By The Rev. George Gilfillan — M.DCCC.LVI.
  3. 3.LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE — POPE'S POETICAL WORKS.
  4. 4.PREFACE. 2
  5. 5.VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR'S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE.
  6. 6.PASTORALS, — WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. 3 — WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV. — VIRG.
  7. 7.SPRING — THE FIRST PASTORAL, OR DAMON. — TO SIR WILLIAM TRUMBULL. 4
  8. 8.VARIATIONS
  9. 9.SUMMER — THE SECOND PASTORAL, OR ALEXIS. — TO DR GARTH.
  10. 10.VARIATIONS.
  11. 11.AUTUMN. — THE THIRD PASTORAL, Or HYLAS AND ÆGON. — TO MR WYCHERLEY. 11
  12. 12.VARIATIONS.
  13. 13.WINTER. — THE FOURTH PASTORAL, OR DAPHNE. — TO THE MEMORY OF MRS TEMPEST. 12
  14. 14.VARIATIONS.
  15. 15.MESSIAH. — A SACRED ECLOGUE, IN IMITATION OF VIRGIL'S 'POLLIO.' — ADVERTISEMENT.
  16. 16.AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM. — WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIX.
  17. 17.PART I.
  18. 18.Introduction.—That 'tis as great a fault to judge ill, as to write ill,
  19. 19.PART II.
  20. 20.PART III.
  21. 21.PART FIRST. — VARIATIONS.
  22. 22.PART SECOND. — VARIATIONS.
  23. 23.PART THIRD. — VARIATIONS.
  24. 24.THE RAPE OF THE LOCK: — AN HEROI-COMICAL POEM. — WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCXII. — MART. — TO MRS ARABELLA FERMOR. — A. POPE.
  25. 25.CANTO I. — VARIATIONS.
  26. 26.CANTO II.
  27. 27.VARIATION.
  28. 28.CANTO III.
  29. 29.VARIATIONS.
  30. 30.CANTO IV.
  31. 31.VARIATION.
  32. 32.CANTO V.
  33. 33.VARIATIONS.
  34. 34.ODE ON ST CECILIA'S DAY,
  35. 35.TWO CHORUSES TO THE TRAGEDY OF BRUTUS.
  36. 36.TO THE AUTHOR OF A POEM ENTITLED SUCCESSIO. 55
  37. 37.ODE ON SOLITUDE. 56
  38. 38.THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL. 57
  39. 39.ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY 58
  40. 40.PROLOGUE TO MR ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OF CATO.
  41. 41.IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS. 60
  42. 42.I. CHAUCER.
  43. 43.II. SPENSER.
  44. 44.III. WALLER.
  45. 45.ON A FAN OF THE AUTHOR'S DESIGN, — IN WHICH WAS PAINTED THE STORY OF CEPHALUS AND PROCRIS, WITH THE MOTTO, 'AURA VENI.'
  46. 46.IV. COWLEY.
  47. 47.WEEPING.
  48. 48.V. EARL OF ROCHESTER.
  49. 49.VI. EARL OF DORSET.
  50. 50.VII. DR SWIFT.
  51. 51.THE TEMPLE OF FAME. — WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCXI. — ADVERTISEMENT.
  52. 52.ELOISA TO ABELARD. — ARGUMENT.
  53. 53.EPISTLE TO ROBERT EARL OF OXFORD AND EARL MORTIMER. 68
  54. 54.EPISTLE TO JAMES CRAGGS, ESQ., SECRETARY OF STATE. 69
  55. 55.EPISTLE TO MR JERVAS, WITH MR DRYDEN'S TRANSLATION OF FRESNOY'S 'ART OF PAINTING.'
  56. 56.EPISTLE TO MISS BLOUNT, WITH THE WORKS OF VOITURE. 72
  57. 57.EPISTLE TO MRS TERESA BLOUNT. ON HER LEAVING THE TOWN AFTER THE CORONATION. 74
  58. 58.TO MRS M. B. 75 ON HER BIRTHDAY.
  59. 59.TO MR THOMAS SOUTHERN, 76 ON HIS BIRTHDAY, 1742.
  60. 60.VARIATION.
  61. 61.TO MR JOHN MOORE, AUTHOR OF THE CELEBRATED WORM-POWDER.
  62. 62.TO MR C., 80 ST JAMES'S PLACE.
  63. 63.EPITAPHS.
  64. 64.AN ESSAY ON MAN: IN FOUR EPISTLES TO HENRY ST JOHN, LORD BOLINGBROKE. — THE DESIGN.
  65. 65.EPISTLE I. — OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO THE UNIVERSE. — Of man in the abstract.—
  66. 66.EPISTLE II. — OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO HIMSELF AS AN INDIVIDUAL.
  67. 67.EPISTLE III. — OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO SOCIETY.
  68. 68.EPISTLE IV. — OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO HAPPINESS.
  69. 69.EPISTLE TO DR ARBUTHNOT; OR, PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES. — ADVERTISEMENT.
  70. 70.SATIRES AND EPISTLES OF HORACE IMITATED. — ADVERTISEMENT.
  71. 71.THE FIRST EPISTLE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE. — ADVERTISEMENT.
  72. 72.TO AUGUSTUS. 142
  73. 73.THE SECOND EPISTLE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE.
  74. 74.BOOK I. EPISTLE VII. — IMITATED IN THE MANNER OF DR SWIFT.
  75. 75.BOOK II. SATIRE VI. THE FIRST PART IMITATED IN THE YEAR 1714, BY DR SWIFT; THE LATTER PART ADDED AFTERWARDS.
  76. 76.BOOK IV. ODE I. TO VENUS.
  77. 77.PART OF THE NINTH ODE OF THE FOURTH BOOK.
  78. 78.THE SATIRES OF DR JOHN DONNE, DEAN OF ST PAUL'S, 171 VERSIFIED.
  79. 79.EPILOGUE 177 TO THE SATIRES. IN TWO DIALOGUES. (WRITTEN IN MDCCXXXVIII.)
  80. 80.FOOTNOTES: — END OF VOL. I.

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