Alexander Pope

Introduction ALEXANDER POPE: SELECTED POETRY AND PROSE; Ode on Solitude; from Boetius, de cons. Philos.; Adriani morientis ad Animam; The Dying Christian to his Soul; To Henry Cromwell, 19 October 1709 [with Argus]; To Henry Cromwell, 25 November 1710 [on versification]; An Essay on Criticism; Epistle to Miss Blount with the Works of Voiture; from Windsor Forest; [On sickness] (essay from The Guardian); The Rape of the Lock; Epistle to Miss Blount, on her leaving the Town, after the Coronation; Eloisa to Abelard; Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady; The Iliad of Homer; from the preface; from the second book of the Iliad: The trial of the army and catalogue of force; from the eighth book of the Iliad: A nightpiece; from the twelfth and sixteenth books of the Iliad: The episode of Sarpedon; from the eighteenth book of the Iliad: The grief of Achilles, and new armour made him by Vulcan from the nineteenth book of the Iliad: Thetis brings to her son the armour made by Vulcan....; He arms for the fight; from the twenty-first book of the Iliad: The battle in the River Scamander; The Odyssey of Homer from the tenth book of the Odyssey: Adventures with...Circe; from the postscript; from the Preface to the Works of Shakespeare; To Mrs M.B. on her Birthday; Epitaph. On Mrs Corbett, Who died of a Cancer in her Breast; Epitaph. On Mr Elijah Fenton. At Easthamstead in Berks, 1730; Epitaph. On Mr Gay. In Westminster Abbey, 1732; An Essay on Man from the first epistle: Of the nature and state of man, with respect to the universe from the second epistle: Of the nature and state of man, with respect to himself, as an individual from the third epistle: Of the nature and state of man, with respect to society; from the fourth epistle: Of the nature and state of man, with respect to happiness; Epistle to a lady. Of the Characters of Women; Epistle to Burlington; To Dr Arbuthnot, 26 July 1734 [On his satire]; An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot; The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated: To Mr Fortescue; The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated: To L. Bolingbroke; The First Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace: To Venus; The Dunciad in Four Books