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Fornt Cover Half Title THE CRITICAL HERITAGE SERIES Title Page Copyright General Editor’s Preface Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABBREVIATIONS PREFACE INTRODUCTION NOTE ON THE TEXT PART I CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM 1705–44

General reactions 1705–20

1 WILLIAM WYCHERLEY, April 1705 2 (a) JOHN GAY on Pope, May 1712

(b) JOSEPH ADDISON on Pope, October 1712

3 JOHN DENNIS, from A True Character of Mr. Pope, May 1716 4 LEONARD WELSTED, from Palæmon to Cælia, March 1717 5 THOMAS PARNELL, ‘To Mr. Pope’, 1717 6 (a) GILES JACOB, from The Poetical Register, December 1718

(b) DR ABEL EVANS, July 1719

Pastorals (1709)

7 Reactions 1705–9

(a) LORD LANSDOWNE, 1705 or 1706 (b) WILLIAM WALSH, April 1705 (c) JACOB TONSON, April 1706 (d) WILLIAM WALSH, September 1706 (e) WILLIAM WYCHERLEY, May 1709

8 WILLIAM WYCHERLEY’S public acclamation, 1709 9 ALEXANDER POPE, The Guardian, April 1713

An Essay on Criticism (1711)

10 JOHN DENNIS, from Reflections Critical and Satyrical, June 1711 11 JOSEPH ADDISON, from The Spectator, December 1711 12 CHARLES GILDON’S first attack, December 1711 13 AARON HILL, May 1738 14 Two contrasting views

(a) SIR THOMAS HANMER (?), 1736 (b) LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU, January–February 1741

Messiah (1712)

15 SIR RICHARD STEELE, June 1712

Windsor Forest (1713)

16 JOHN DENNIS, December 1714 17 WILLIAM BOND, from The Progress of Dulness, June 1720

The Rape of the Lock (1714)

18 (a) SIR WILLIAM TRUMBULL, March 1714

(b) REV. GEORGE BERKELEY, May 1714

19 CHARLES GILDON, from A New Rehearsal, April 1714 20 JOHN DENNIS, FROM Remarks on the Rape of the Lock, May 1714ff. 21 WILLIAM BOND, from The Progress of Dulness, June 1720 22 MATTHEW CONCANEN, from ‘Of Modern Poetry’, November 1725 23 P.-F. GUYOT, ‘Preface du Traducteur’, 1728 24 Two Italian assessments

(a) ANDREA BONDUCCI, 1739 (b) GIUSEPPE BUONDELMONTI, 1739

Iliad (1715–20)

25 RICHARD FIDDES, from A Prefatory Epistle, 1714 26 THOMAS BURNET and GEORGE DUCKETT, from Homerides, March 1715 27 (a) Anonymous, The Weekly Journal, June 1715

(b) Anonymous, The Weekly Journal, June 1715

28 The public takes sides, June 1715–March 1717

(a) THOMAS PARNELL, June 1715 (b) JONATHAN SWIFT, June 1715 (c) DR EDWARD YOUNG, June 1715 (d) REV. GEORGE BERKELEY, July 1715 (e) JOHN GAY, July 1715 (f) THOMAS BURNET, August 1715 (g) JOSEPH ADDISON, from The Freeholder, May 1716 (h) J. D. BREVAL (‘Joseph Gay’), from The Confederates, March 1717

29 LEWIS THEOBALD, from The Censor, January 1717 30 JOHN DENNIS, from Remarks on Mr. Pope’s Homer, February 1717 31 LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU, September 1717 32 ANNE DACIER, ‘Reflexions sur la Preface de M. Pope’, 1719 33 WILLIAM MELMOTH, October 1719

A Roman Catholick Version of the First Psalm (1716)

34 SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE, from Essays upon Several Subjects, 1717

Eloisa to Abelard (1717)

35 (a) MATTHEW PRIOR, from Alma, March 1719

(b) JAMES DELACOUR, preface to Abelard to Eloisa, 1730

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (1717)

36 THOMAS BLACKLOCK, c. 1742

Epitaph on John Hewet and Sarah Drew (1718)

37 (a) BISHOP ATTERBURY, September 1718

(b) LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU, November 1718

General Reactions 1721–9

38 MATTHEW CONCANEN, from ‘A Letter to a Critick’, 1722 39 VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE, February 1724 40 DR EDWARD YOUNG, from The Universal Passion, Satire i, 1725 41 WALTER HARTE, from ‘To Mr. Pope’, 1727 42 VOLTAIRE on Pope

(a) October 1726 (b) from Lettres philosophiques, June 1726–March 1729

43 (a) MATHER BYLES, October 1727

(b) MATHER BYLES, May 1728

44 JOHN DENNIS (?), from The Daily Journal, May 1728 45 MATTHEW CONCANEN, from A Supplement to the Profound, August 1728 46 Pope’s superiority

(a) RICHARD SAVAGE, from The Wanderer, 1729 (b) BISHOP ATTERBURY, November 1729

Odyssey (1725–6)

47 ‘HOMERIDES’, from The London Journal, July 1725 48 DANIEL DEFOE, ‘On Pope’s Translation of Homer’, July 1725 49 JOSEPH SPENCE, from An Essay on Pope’s Odyssey, part i, June 1726 50 JOSEPH SPENCE, from An Essay on Pope’s Odyssey, part ii, August 1727 51 MATTHEW CONCANEN, from Preface, A Supplement to the Profound, August 1728

The Dunciad (1728)

52 W.A., from Mist’s Weekly Journal, May 1728 53 Anonymous, from An Essay on the Dunciad, June 1728 54 JONATHAN SWIFT, July 1728

The Dunciad Variorum (1729)

55 Anonymous, from Pope Alexander’s Supremacy Examin’d, May 1729 56 JOHN DENNIS, from Remarks upon the Dunciad, July 1729 57 BISHOP ATTERBURY, August 1729 58 GILES JACOB, December 1729 59 WALTER HARTE, from An Essay upon Satire, January 1731 60 HENRY FIELDING, from The Champion, November 1739

General reactions 1730–44

61 SAMUEL RICHARDSON, conversation, c. 1730–4 62 LORD LYTTELTON, An Epistle to Mr. Pope, June 1730 63 ‘CHEVALIER’ ANDREW RAMSAY, 1733 64 Anonymous, from The Satirist, June 1733 65 Anonymous, from The Poet finish’d in Prose, June 1735 66 Anonymous poem from The Prompter, November 1735 67 THOMAS DALE, from An Epistle . . . from South Carolina, 1737 68 (a) DR ISAAC WATTS, June 1738

(b) COUNTESS OF HERTFORD, August 1738 (c) COUNTESS OF HERTFORD, May 1739

69 HENRY BROOKE, November 1739 70 DR ISAAC WATTS, from The Improvement of the Mind, 1741 71 LORD HERVEY, from A Letter to Mr. C—b—r, August 1742 72 Anonymous, from Sawney and Colley, 1742

‘Ethick Epistles’ (1729–36)

73 (a) VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE, June–July 1734

(b) JONATHAN SWIFT, December 1736

Moral Essays IV: Epistle to Burlington (1731)

74 DUKE OF CHANDOS, December 1731 75 LEONARD WELSTED, from Of Dulness and Scandal, January 1732

Moral Essays III: Epistle to Bathurst (1733)

76 JONATHAN SWIFT, January 1733

Imitations of Horace, Satires II. i (1733)

77 LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU, Verse Address’d to the Imitator, March 1733 78 Anonymous, from An Epistle to the Little Satyrist of Twickenham, March 1733

An Essay on Man (1733)

79 Pope describes the poem’s reception, March 1733 80 Initial reactions, 1733–4

(a) LEONARD WELSTED, March 1733 (b) DR ALURED CLARKE, April 1733 (c) A.Z. from The Gentleman’s Magazine, February 1734 (d) I.C. from The Gentleman’s Magazine, February 1734 (e) ROBERT DODSLEY, from An Epistle to Mr. Pope, November 1734 (f) JONATHAN SWIFT, November 1734

81 MR BRIDGES from Divine Wisdom, March 1736 82 ABBÉ DU RESNEL, ‘Discours préliminaire’, 1736 83 J. P. DE CROUSAZ, from Examen de l’essai sur l’homme, 1737 84 WILLIAM WARBURTON replies, December 1738–April 1739 85 LORD HERVEY, from A Letter to Mr. C—b—r, August 1742

Epitaph on Mr. Gay (1733)

86 JONATHAN SWIFT, March 1733

Imitations of Horace: Sober Advice from Horace (1734)

87 THOMAS BENTLEY, from A Letter to Mr. Pope, March 1735

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (1735)

88 (a) ELIZABETH ROWE, 1734–5

(b) LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU, January 1735 (c) COLLEY CIBBER, from A Letter from Mr. Cibber, 1742

Epilogue to the Satires: Dialogue II (1738)

89 (a) AARON HILL, July 1738

(b) JONATHAN SWIFT, August 1738

The New Dunciad (1742)

90 (a) WILLIAM SHENSTONE, March 1742

(b) THOMAS GRAY, April 1742

91 COLLEY CIBBER, from A Letter from Mr. Cibber, July 1742 92 HENRY FIELDING, from The Champion, August 1742 93 SAMUEL RICHARDSON, January 1743

The Dunciad in Four Books (1743)

94 JOHN HENLEY, from Why How now, Gossip Pope?, 1743 95 SAMUEL RICHARDSON, January 1744

A final tribute

96 Anonymous, An Elegy on Mr. Pope, June 1744

PART II LATER CRITICISM 1745–82

97 WILLIAM AYRE, from Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq., 1745 98 THOMAS GRAY, February 1746 99 SAMUEL JOHNSON, from The Rambler, February 1751 100 WILLIAM WARBURTON, from The Works of Alexander Pope, 1751 101 CATHERINE TALBOT, August 1751 102 WILLIAM COWPER on Pope’s Homer, c. 1753–7 103 DE LUSTRAC on the Pastorals, April 1753 104 ROBERT SHIELS, from Cibber’s Lives of the Poets, February 1753 105 JOSEPH WARTON, from The Adventurer, June 1753 106 JOSEPH WARTON, from An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, vol. i, 1756 107 SAMUEL JOHNSON reviews Warton, 1756 108 SAMUEL JOHNSON, from ‘A Dissertation upon the Epitaphs of Pope’, May 1756 109 VOLTAIRE, passage added to Lettres Philosophiques, 1756 110 SAMUEL RICHARDSON, 1757 111 W. H. DILWORTH, from The Life of Alexander Pope, 1759 112 DR EDWARD YOUNG, from Conjectures on Original Composition, 1759 113 CONTE F. ALGAROTTI, October 1759 114 SAMUEL JOHNSON, from The Idler, October 1759 115 LORD LYTTELTON, from Dialogues of the Dead, 1760 116 DR HUGH BLAIR, from Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, delivered c. 1762 117 LORD KAMES, from Elements of Criticism, March 1762 118 ARTHUR MURPHY, from The Works of Henry Fielding, 1762 119 PALISSOT DE MONTENOY on The Dunciad, 1764 120 (a) OLIVER GOLDSMITH, from An History of England, 1764

(b) OLIVER GOLDSMITH, from The Beauties of English Poesy, April 1767

121 OWEN RUFFHEAD, from The Life of Alexander Pope, 1769 122 SAMUEL JOHNSON reviews Ruffhead, 1769 123 THOMAS WARTON, from A History of English Poetry, 1774 124 GEORGE CAMPBELL, from The Philosophy of Rhetoric, 1776 125 PERCIVAL STOCKDALE, from An Inquiry into the Nature, and Genuine Laws of Poetry, 1778 126 (a) WILLIAM COWPER, from Table-Talk, written 1780–1

(b) WILLIAM COWPER, January 1782

127 SAMUEL JOHNSON, from ‘The Life of Pope’, May 1781 128 JOSEPH WARTON, from An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, vol. ii, 1782 129 WILLIAM HAYLEY, from An Essay on Epic Poetry, December 1782 130 SAMUEL JOHNSON, October 1782 131 VICESIMUS KNOX, from Essays Moral and Literary, 1782

APPENDIX A Pope on Versification (1706?) APPENDIX B ‘The Ballance of Poets’ (1745) BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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