The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1
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- THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE
- VOL. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
- M.DCCC.LVI.
- LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE
- POPE'S POETICAL WORKS.
- PREFACE.2
- VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR'S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE.
- PASTORALS,
- WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY.3 WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV.
- VIRG.
- SPRING — THE FIRST PASTORAL, OR DAMON.
- TO SIR WILLIAM TRUMBULL.4
- VARIATIONS
- SUMMER — THE SECOND PASTORAL, OR ALEXIS.
- TO DR GARTH.
- VARIATIONS.
- AUTUMN. — THE THIRD PASTORAL, Or HYLAS AND ÆGON.
- TO MR WYCHERLEY.11
- VARIATIONS.
- WINTER. — THE FOURTH PASTORAL, OR DAPHNE.
- TO THE MEMORY OF MRS TEMPEST.12
- VARIATIONS.
- MESSIAH. — A SACRED ECLOGUE, IN IMITATION OF VIRGIL'S 'POLLIO.'
- ADVERTISEMENT.
- AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM.
- WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIX.
- PART I.
- Introduction.—That 'tis as great a fault to judge ill, as to write ill,
- PART II.
- PART III.
- PART FIRST.
- VARIATIONS.
- PART SECOND.
- VARIATIONS.
- PART THIRD.
- VARIATIONS.
- THE RAPE OF THE LOCK:
- AN HEROI-COMICAL POEM. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCXII.
- MART. TO MRS ARABELLA FERMOR.
- A. POPE.
- CANTO I.
- VARIATIONS.
- CANTO II.
- VARIATION.
- CANTO III.
- VARIATIONS.
- CANTO IV.
- VARIATION.
- CANTO V.
- VARIATIONS.
- ODE ON ST CECILIA'S DAY,
- TWO CHORUSES TO THE TRAGEDY OF BRUTUS.
- TO THE AUTHOR OF A POEM ENTITLED SUCCESSIO.55
- ODE ON SOLITUDE.56
- THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL.57
- ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY58
- PROLOGUE TO MR ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OF CATO.
- IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS.60
- I. CHAUCER.
- II. SPENSER.
- III. WALLER.
- ON A FAN OF THE AUTHOR'S DESIGN,
- IN WHICH WAS PAINTED THE STORY OF CEPHALUS AND PROCRIS, WITH THE MOTTO, 'AURA VENI.'
- IV. COWLEY.
- WEEPING.
- V. EARL OF ROCHESTER.
- VI. EARL OF DORSET.
- VII. DR SWIFT.
- THE TEMPLE OF FAME.
- WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCXI. ADVERTISEMENT.
- ELOISA TO ABELARD.
- ARGUMENT.
- EPISTLE TO ROBERT EARL OF OXFORD AND EARL MORTIMER.68
- EPISTLE TO JAMES CRAGGS, ESQ., SECRETARY OF STATE.69
- EPISTLE TO MR JERVAS, WITH MR DRYDEN'S TRANSLATION OF FRESNOY'S 'ART OF PAINTING.'
- EPISTLE TO MISS BLOUNT, WITH THE WORKS OF VOITURE.72
- EPISTLE TO MRS TERESA BLOUNT. ON HER LEAVING THE TOWN AFTER THE CORONATION.74
- TO MRS M. B.75 ON HER BIRTHDAY.
- TO MR THOMAS SOUTHERN,76 ON HIS BIRTHDAY, 1742.
- VARIATION.
- TO MR JOHN MOORE, AUTHOR OF THE CELEBRATED WORM-POWDER.
- TO MR C.,80 ST JAMES'S PLACE.
- EPITAPHS.
- AN ESSAY ON MAN: IN FOUR EPISTLES TO HENRY ST JOHN, LORD BOLINGBROKE.
- THE DESIGN.
- EPISTLE I. — OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO THE UNIVERSE.
- Of man in the abstract.—
- EPISTLE II. — OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO HIMSELF AS AN INDIVIDUAL.
- EPISTLE III. — OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO SOCIETY.
- EPISTLE IV. — OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN WITH RESPECT TO HAPPINESS.
- EPISTLE TO DR ARBUTHNOT; OR, PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES.
- ADVERTISEMENT.
- SATIRES AND EPISTLES OF HORACE IMITATED.
- ADVERTISEMENT.
- THE FIRST EPISTLE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE.
- ADVERTISEMENT.
- TO AUGUSTUS.142
- THE SECOND EPISTLE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE.
- BOOK I. EPISTLE VII. — IMITATED IN THE MANNER OF DR SWIFT.
- BOOK II. SATIRE VI. THE FIRST PART IMITATED IN THE YEAR 1714, BY DR SWIFT; THE LATTER PART ADDED AFTERWARDS.
- BOOK IV. ODE I. TO VENUS.
- PART OF THE NINTH ODE OF THE FOURTH BOOK.
- THE SATIRES OF DR JOHN DONNE, DEAN OF ST PAUL'S,171 VERSIFIED.
- EPILOGUE177 TO THE SATIRES. IN TWO DIALOGUES. (WRITTEN IN MDCCXXXVIII.)
- FOOTNOTES:
- END OF VOL. I.
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