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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 2
Credits
Etext produced by Jonathan Ingram, David King and PG Distributed Proofreaders HTML file produced by David Widger
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
English poetry -- 18th century
Category
Text
eBook-No.
9601
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9601
Release Date
January 1, 2006
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE — With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes ,
  2. 2.By The Rev. George Gilfillan. — VOL. II. — M.DCCC.LVI.
  3. 3.THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE.
  4. 4.MORAL ESSAYS.
  5. 5.EPISTLE I.—TO SIR RICHARD TEMPLE, LORD COBHAM. OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND CHARACTERS OF MEN.
  6. 6.EPISTLE III. 20 —TO ALLEN LORD BATHURST. OF THE USE OF RICHES.
  7. 7.EPISTLE IV.—TO RICHARD BOYLE, EARL OF BURLINGTON. OF THE USE OF RICHES.
  8. 8.EPISTLE V. TO MR ADDISON. OCCASIONED BY HIS DIALOGUES ON MEDALS. 54
  9. 9.TRANSLATIONS AND IMITATIONS. SAPPHO TO PHAON. FROM THE FIFTEENTH OF OVID'S EPISTLES.
  10. 10.THE FABLE OF DRYOPE. 56 FROM THE NINTH BOOK OF OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.
  11. 11.VERTUMNUS AND POMONA, FROM THE FOURTEENTH BOOK OF OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.
  12. 12.THE FIRST BOOK OF STATIUS'S THEBAIS. TRANSLATED IN THE YEAR 1703.
  13. 13.JANUARY AND MAY. FROM CHAUCER. 58
  14. 14.THE WIFE OF BATH, HER PROLOGUE. FROM CHAUCER.
  15. 15.PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUES
  16. 16.A PROLOGUE TO A PLAY FOR MR DENNIS'S BENEFIT, IN 1733, WHEN HE WAS OLD, BLIND, AND IN GREAT DISTRESS, A LITTLE BEFORE HIS DEATH.
  17. 17.PROLOGUE TO MR ADDISON'S 'CATO.'
  18. 18.PROLOGUE TO THOMSON'S 'SOPHONISBA.' 59
  19. 19.PROLOGUE, DESIGNED FOR MR D'URFEY'S LAST PLAY.
  20. 20.PROLOGUE TO 'THE THREE HOURS AFTER MARRIAGE'
  21. 21.EPILOGUE TO MR ROWE'S 'JANE SHORE.' DESIGNED FOR MRS OLDFIELD.
  22. 22.MISCELLANIES
  23. 23.THE BASSET-TABLE. 62 AN ECLOGUE.
  24. 24.LINES ON RECEIVING FROM THE EIGHT HON. THE LADY FRANCES SHIRLEY 63 A STANDISH AND TWO PENS.
  25. 25.VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU. UN JOUR DIT UN AUTEUR, ETC.
  26. 26.ANSWER TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION OF MRS HOWE.
  27. 27.OCCASIONED BY SOME VERSES OF HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.
  28. 28.MACER: A CHARACTER.
  29. 29.SONG, BY A PERSON OF QUALITY, WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1733.
  30. 30.ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT.
  31. 31.ON HIS GROTTO AT TWICKENHAM, COMPOSED OF MARBLES, SPARS, GEMS, ORES, AND MINERALS.
  32. 32.ROXANA, OR THE DRAWING-ROOM. AN ECLOGUE.
  33. 33.TO LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE.
  34. 34.EXTEMPORANEOUS LINES ON A PORTRAIT OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE, PAINTED BY KNELLER.
  35. 35.LINES SUNG BY DURASTANTI, WHEN SHE TOOK LEAVE OF THE ENGLISH STAGE.
  36. 36.UPON THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH'S HOUSE AT WOODSTOCK.
  37. 37.VERSES LEFT BY MR POPE. ON HIS LYING IN THE SAME BED WHICH WILMOT, THE CELEBRATED EARL OF ROCHESTER, SLEPT IN AT ADDERBURY, THEN BELONGING TO THE DUKE OF ARGYLL, JULY 9, 1739.
  38. 38.THE CHALLENGE, A COURT BALLAD. TO THE TUNE OF 'TO ALL YOU LADIES NOW AT LAND.'
  39. 39.THE THREE GENTLE SHEPHERDS.
  40. 40.EPIGRAM, ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG WHICH I GAVE TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS.
  41. 41.THE TRANSLATOR.
  42. 42.THE LOOKING-GLASS. ON MRS PULTENEY. 81
  43. 43.A FAREWELL TO LONDON IN THE YEAR 1715.
  44. 44.SANDYS' GHOST; 82 OR, A PROPER NEW BALLAD ON THE NEW OVID'S METAMORPHOSES: AS IT WAS INTENDED TO BE TRANSLATED BY PERSONS OF QUALITY.
  45. 45.UMBRA. 85
  46. 46.SYLVIA, A FRAGMENT.
  47. 47.IMPROMPTU TO LADY WINCHELSEA. OCCASIONED BY FOUR SATIRICAL VERSES ON WOMEN WITS, IN 'THE RAPE OF THE LOCK.'
  48. 48.EPIGRAM.
  49. 49.EPIGRAM ON THE FEUDS ABOUT HANDEL AND BONONCINI.
  50. 50.ON MRS TOFTS, A CELEBRATED OPERA SINGER.
  51. 51.THE BALANCE OF EUROPE.
  52. 52.EPITAPH ON LORD CONINGSBY.
  53. 53.EPIGRAM.
  54. 54.EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH.
  55. 55.EPITAPH ON GAY.
  56. 56.EPIGRAM ON THE TOASTS OF THE KIT-CAT CLUB, ANNO 1716.
  57. 57.TO A LADY, WITH THE 'TEMPLE OF FAME.'
  58. 58.ON THE COUNTESS OF BURLINGTON CUTTING PAPER.
  59. 59.ON DRAWINGS OF THE STATUES OF APOLLO, VENUS, AND HERCULES, MADE FOR POPE BY SIR GODFREY KNELLER.
  60. 60.ON BENTLEY'S 'MILTON.'
  61. 61.LINES WRITTEN IN WINDSOR FOREST.
  62. 62.TO ERINNA.
  63. 63.A DIALOGUE.
  64. 64.ODE TO QUINBUS FLESTRIN, THE MAN MOUNTAIN, 87 BY TITTY TIT, POET-LAUREATE TO HIS MAJESTY OF LILLIPUT. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH.
  65. 65.THE LAMENTATION OF GLUMDALCLITCH FOR THE LOSS OF GRILDRIG. A PASTORAL.
  66. 66.TO MR LEMUEL GULLIVER, THE GRATEFUL ADDRESS OF THE UNHAPPY HOUYHNHNMS, NOW IN SLAVERY AND BONDAGE IN ENGLAND.
  67. 67.MARY GULLIVER TO CAPTAIN LEMUEL GULLIVER. AN EPISTLE.
  68. 68.1740. A FRAGMENT OF A POEM.
  69. 69.THE FOURTH EPISTLE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE. 128
  70. 70.EPIGRAM ON ONE WHO MADE LONG EPITAPHS. 129
  71. 71.ON AN OLD GATE. ERECTED IN CHISWICK GARDENS.
  72. 72.A FRAGMENT.
  73. 73.TO MR GAY, WHO HAD CONGRATULATED POPE ON FINISHING HIS HOUSE AND GARDENS.
  74. 74.ARGUS.
  75. 75.PRAYER OF BRUTUS. FROM GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH.
  76. 76.LINES ON A GROTTO, AT CRUX-EASTON, HANTS.
  77. 77.THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER, DEO OPT. MAX.
  78. 78.THE DUNCIAD. IN FOUR BOOKS.
  79. 79.A LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER, OCCASIONED BY THE FIRST CORRECT EDITION OF THE DUNCIAD.
  80. 80.MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS HIS PROLEGOMENA AND ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE DUNCIAD: WITH THE HYPERCRITICS OF ARISTARCHUS. — DENNIS, REMARKS ON PR. ARTHUR. — CHARACTER OF MR P., 1716. — GILDON, PREF. TO HIS NEW REHEARSAL. — THEOBALD, LETTER TO MIST, JUNE 22, 1728. — CONCANEN, DED. TO THE AUTHOR OF THE DUNCIAD.
  81. 81.TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS CONCERNING OUR POET AND HIS WORKS. — M. SCRIBLERUS LECTORI S. — MR JOHN DENNIS. — MR OLDMIXON. — MR LEONARD WELSTED, — MR ADDISON. — MR JOHN DENNIS, — DR GARTH, — MR PRIOR — SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE, KT., — MR OLDMIXON, — MR LEWIS THEOBALD — MIST'S JOURNAL, JUNE 8, — MR ADDISON, FREEHOLDER, NO. 40. — MR THEOBALD, MIST'S JOURNAL, JUNE 8, 1728,) — MIST'S JOURNAL, JUNE 8, 1728,) — MIST'S JOURNAL, JUNE 8, 1728. — JAMES MOORE SMITH, GENT. — MR JAMES MOORE SMITH. — JOHN DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM — MR JOHN DENNIS, — MR LEWIS THEOBALD — MR THEOBALD, — MR CHARLES GILDON, — MR OLDMIXON — THE AUTHOR OF A LETTER TO MR CIBBER — MR THOMAS COOKE, — H. STANHOPE, — MIST'S JOURNAL, JUNE 8, 1728. — MR COLLEY CIBBER, — MR DENNIS AND MR GILDON, — MR LEONARD WELSTED — P. — MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS OF THE POEM. — P. — RICARDUS ARISTARCHUS OF THE HERO OF THE POEM. — BY AUTHORITY.
  82. 82.THE DUNCIAD: 234 BOOK THE FIRST. TO DR JONATHAN SWIFT. — ARGUMENT.
  83. 83.BOOK THE SECOND. — ARGUMENT.
  84. 84.BOOK THE THIRD. — ARGUMENT.
  85. 85.BOOK THE FOURTH. — ARGUMENT.
  86. 86.BY THE AUTHOR. A DECLARATION.
  87. 87.APPENDIX TO THE DUNCIAD. — I.—PREFACE — THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER. — THE DUNCIAD. — II.—A LIST OF BOOKS, PAPERS, AND VERSES, — VERSES, LETTERS, ESSAYS, OR ADVERTISEMENTS, IN THE PUBLIC PRINTS. — AFTER THE DUNCIAD, 1728. — III.—ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION—WITH NOTES, — IN QUARTO, 1729. — WHEN PRINTED SEPARATELY IN THE YEAR 1742. — W. W. — VI.—ADVERTISEMENT PRINTED IN THE JOURNALS, 1730. — VII.—A PARALLEL OF THE CHARACTERS OF MR DRYDEN AND MR POPE, — AS DRAWN BY CERTAIN OF THEIR CONTEMPORARIES. — MR DRYDEN—HIS POLITICS, RELIGION, MORALS. — MR DRYDEN ONLY A VERSIFIER. — MR DRYDEN'S VIRGIL. — MR DRYDEN UNDERSTOOD NO GREEK NOR LATIN. — MR DRYDEN TRICKED HIS SUBSCRIBERS. — NAMES BESTOWED ON MR DRYDEN. — MR POPE—HIS POLITICS, RELIGION, MORALS. — MR POPE ONLY A VERSIFIER. — MR POPE'S HOMER. — MR POPE UNDERSTOOD NO GREEK. — MR POPE TRICKED HIS SUBSCRIBERS. — NAMES BESTOWED ON MR POPE.
  88. 88.INDEX OF PERSONS CELEBRATED IN THIS POEM.
  89. 89.FOOTNOTES: — P. W.] — END OF POPE'S WORKS.

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