The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings by Pope, Alexander -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover About the Author Title Page Copyright Page Contents Chronology Introduction

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Further Reading A Note on the Texts The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings

EARLY POEMS

An Essay on Criticism

Part I Part II Part III

Windsor Forest Prologue to Mr Addison’s Tragedy of Cato

The Rape of the Lock An Heroi-Comical Poem

The Rape of the Lock

Canto I Canto II Canto III Canto IV Canto V

Epistle to Mrs Teresa Blount, on her Leaving the Town, after the Coronation Eloisa to Abelard Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady From the Iliad

[From the description of the first battle, Book IV] [The council of deities, Book VIII] [Sarpedon’s speech, Book XII] [Vulcan forges the shield of Achilles, Book XVIII] [The reception of Hector’s body in Troy, Book XXIV]

LATER POEMS

[TWO EPIGRAMS] An Essay on Man: in Four Epistles to Henry St John Lord Bolingbroke

Epistle I Epistle II Epistle III Epistle IV

Epistles to Several Persons

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

The Fourth Satire of Dr John Donne Versified An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot [Imitations of Horace]

Satire, II, i Satire, II, ii Epistle, I, i Epistle, II, i Epistle, II, ii Ode, IV, i Ode, IV, ix

EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES

Dialogue I Dialogue II

The Dunciad

Book the First Book the Second Book the Third Book the Fourth

PROSE WRITINGS

FROM THE PREFACE TO THE ILIAD FROM THE PREFACE TO THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE FROM PERI BATHOUS, OR: OF THE ART OF SINKING IN POETRY

SELECTED LETTERS

To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 3 February 1717 To Teresa and Martha Blount, late 1717 To Teresa and Martha Blount, 8 October 1718 To Edward Blount, 2 June 1725 To John Gay, October 1730 To Jonathan Swift, 2 April 1733 To Jonathan Swift, 19 December 1734 To William Warburton, 11 April 1739

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