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Author: Alexander Pope Author: Homer Editor: Henry W. Boynton About This Title: This collection includes Pope’s poems, translations of Ovid and Homer, An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, An Essay on Man, and his Moral Essays. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 2 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2278 Online Library of Liberty: The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope About Liberty Fund: Liberty Fund, Inc. is a private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. Copyright Information: The text is in the public domain. Fair Use Statement: This material is put online to further the educational goals of Liberty Fund, Inc. Unless otherwise stated in the Copyright Information section above, this material may be used freely for educational and academic purposes. It may not be used in any way for profit. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 3 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2278 Online Library of Liberty: The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Table Of Contents Editor’s Note Biographical Sketch Early Poems Ode On Solitude A Paraphrase (on Thomas À Kempis, L. III. C. 2) To the Author of a Poem Entitled Successio [ ] The First Book of Statius’s Thebais Translated In the Year 1703 Imitations of English Poets Chaucer Spenser [ ] the Alley Waller On a Lady Singing to Her Lute Cowley the Garden Weeping Earl of Rochester On Silence Earl of Dorset Artemisia Dr. Swift the Happy Life of a Country Parson Pastorals Discourse On Pastoral Poetry I: Spring; Or, Damon [ ] to Sir William Trumbull II: Summer; Or, Alexis to Dr. Garth III: Autumn; Or, Hylas and Ægon [ ] to Mr. Wycherley IV: Winter; Or, Daphne [ ] to the Memory of Mrs. Tempest Windsor Forest [ ] to the Right Hon. George Lord Lansdown Paraphrases From Chaucer January and May: Or, the Merchant’s Tale The Wife of Bath Her Prologue The Temple of Fame [ ] Translations From Ovid Sappho to Phaon From the Fifteenth of Ovid’s Epistles The Fable of Dryope [ ] From the Ninth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses Vertumnus and Pomona From the Fourteenth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses An Essay On Criticism [ ] Part I Part Ii Part Iii Poems Written Between 1708 and 1712 Ode For Music On St. Cecilia’s Day Argus The Balance of Europe The Translator On Mrs. Tofts, a Famous Opera-singer Epistle to Mrs. Blount, With the Works of Voiture. The Dying Christian to His Soul Epistle to Mr. Jervas [ ] With Dryden’s Translation of Fresnoy’s Art of Painting PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 4 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2278 Online Library of Liberty: The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Impromptu to Lady Winchilsea Occasioned By Four Satirical Verses On Women Wits, In the Rape of the Lock Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady Messiah The Rape of the Lock an Heroi-comical Poem [ ] Canto I Canto Ii Canto Iii Canto Iv Canto V Poems Written Between 1713 and 1717 Prologue to Mr. Addison’s Cato Epilogue to Mr. Rowe’s Jane Shore Designed For Mrs. Oldfield To a Lady, With the Temple of Fame Upon the Duke of Marlborough’s House At Woodstock Lines to Lord Bathurst Macer [ ] a Character Epistle to Mrs. Teresa Blount On Her Leaving the Town After the Coronation Lines Occasioned By Some Verses of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham A Farewell to London [ ] In the Year 1715 Imitation of Martial Imitation of Tibullus The Basset-table [ ] an Eclogue Epigram On the Toasts of the Kit-cat Club [ ] Anno 1716 The Challenge a Court Ballad The Looking-glass On Mrs. Pulteney Prologue, Designed For Mr. D’urfey’s Last Play Prologue to the ‘three Hours After Marriage’ Prayer of Brutus From Geoffrey of Monmouth To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Extemporaneous Lines On a Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Painted By Kneller Eloisa to Abelard [ ] Poems Written Between 1718 and 1727 An Inscription Upon a Punch-bowl In the South Sea Year, For a Club: Chased With Jupiter Placing Callisto In the Skies, and Europa With the Bull Epistle to James Craggs, Esq. Secretary of State A Dialogue Verses to Mr. C. St. James’s Palace, London, Oct. 22 To Mr. Gay Who Had Congratulated Pope On Finishing His House and Gardens On Drawings of the Statues of Apollo, Venus, and Hercules Made For Pope By Sir Godfrey Kneller Epistle to Robert Earl of Oxford and Mortimer Prefixed to Parnell’s Poems Two Choruses to the Tragedy of Brutus To Mrs. M. B. On Her Birthday Answer to the Following Question of Mrs. Howe On a Certain Lady At Court PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 5 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2278 Online Library of Liberty: The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope To Mr. John Moore Author of the Celebrated Worm-powder The Curll Miscellanies Umbra Poems Suggested By Gulliver Later Poems On Certain Ladies Celia 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 Song, By a Person of Quality Written In the Year 1733 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 Argyle, July 9th, 1739 On His Grotto At Twickenham Composed of Marbles, Spars, Gems, Ores, and Minerals On Receiving From the Right Hon. the Lady Frances Shirley a Standish and Two Pens On Beaufort House Gate At Chiswick To Mr. Thomas Southern On His Birthday, 1742 Epigram 1740: A Poem [ ] Poems of Uncertain Date To Erinna Lines Written In Windsor Forest Verbatim From Boileau First Published By Warburton In 1751 Lines On Swift’s Ancestors On Seeing the Ladies At Crux Easton Walk In the Woods By the Grotto Extempore By Mr. Pope Inscription On a Grotto, the Work of Nine Ladies To the Right Hon. the Earl of Oxford Upon a Piece of News In Mist [mist’s Journal] That the Rev. Mr. W. Refused to Write Against Mr. Pope Because His Best Patron Had a Friendship For the Said Pope Epigrams and Epitaphs On a Picture of Queen Caroline Drawn By Lady Burlington Epigram Engraved On the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness Lines Written In Evelyn’s Book On Coins From the Grub-street Journal I: Epigram II: Epigram III: Mr. J. M. S[myth]e Catechised On His One Epistle to Mr. Pope IV: Epigram On Mr. M[oo]re’s Going to Law With Mr. Giliver: Inscribed to Attorney Tibbald V: Epigram VI: Epitaph On James Moore-smythe VII: A Question By Anonymous VIII: Epigram IX: Epigram Epitaphs PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 6 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2278 Online Library of Liberty: The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope On Charles Earl of Dorset In the Church of Withyam, Sussex On Sir William Trumbull One of the Principal Secretaries of State to King William Iii On the Hon. Simon Harcourt Only Son of the Lord Chancellor Harcourt On James Craggs, Esq. In Westminster Abbey On Mr. Rowe In Westminster Abbey On Mrs. Corbet Who Died of a Cancer In Her Breast On the Monument of the Hon. R. Digby and of His Sister Mary Erected By Their Father, Lord Digby, In the Church of Sherborne, In Dorsetshire, 1727. On Sir Godfrey Kneller In Westminster Abbey, 1723 On General Henry Withers In Westminster Abbey, 1729 On Mr. Elijah Fenton At Easthamstead, Berks, 1729 On Mr. Gay In Westminster Abbey, 1730 Intended For Sir Isaac Newton In Westminster Abbey On Dr. Francis Atterbury Bishop of Rochester, Who Died In Exile At Paris, 1732 On Edmund Duke of Buckingham Who Died In the Nineteenth Year of His Age, 1735 For One Who Would Not Be Buried In Westminster Abbey Another On the Same On Two Lovers Struck Dead By Lightning Epitaph An Essay On Man [ ] In Four Epistles to Lord Bolingbroke The Design Epistle I of the Nature and State of Man, With Respect to the Universe 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 Moral Essays Advertisement Epistle I [ ] to Sir Richard Temple, Lord Cobham Epistle Ii [ ] to a Lady of the Characters of Women Epistle Iii [ ] to Allen, Lord Bathurst Epistle IV: To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington of the Use of Riches Epistle V: To Mr. Addison Occasioned By His Dialogues On Medals Universal Prayer Deo Opt. Max. Satires Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [ ] Being the Prologue to the Satires Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace Imitated [ ] Advertisement The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace The Second Satire of the Second Book of Horace [ ] The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace [ ] The Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace [ ] The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace [ ] The Second Epistle of the Second Book of Horace [ ] PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 7 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2278 Online Library of Liberty: The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Satires of Dr. John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s, Versified [ ] Epilogue to the Satires [ ] In Two Dialogues. Written In 1738 The Sixth Satire of the Second Book of Horace [ ] The Seventh Epistle of the First Book of Horace [ ] The First Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace [ ] The Ninth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace The Dunciad In Four Books Martinus Scriblerus of the Poem Preface Prefixed to the Five First Imperfect Editions of the Dunciad, In Three Books, Printed At Dublin and London, In Octavo and Duodecimo, 1727. The Publisher to the Reader A Letter to the Publisher Occasioned By the First Correct Edition of the Dunciad Advertisement to the First Edition With Notes, Quarto, 1729 Advertisement to the First Edition of the Fourth Book of the Dunciad, When Printed Separately In the Year 1742 Advertisement to the Complete Edition of 1743 The Dunciad [ ] to Dr. Jonathan Swift Book I Book Ii [ ] Book Iii [ ] Book Iv [ ] Translations From Homer the Iliad Pope’s Preface Book I: The Contention of Achilles and Agamemnon Book II: The Trial of the Army and Catalogue of the Forces Book III: The Duel of Menelaus and Paris Book IV: The Breach of the Truce, and the First Battle Book V: The Acts of Diomed Book VI: The Episodes of Glaucus and Diomed, and of Hector and Andromache Book VII: The Single Combat of Hector and Ajax Book VIII: The Second Battle, and the Distress of the Greeks Book IX: The Embassy to Achilles Book X: The Night Adventure of Diomede and Ulysses Book XI: The Third Battle, and the Acts of Agamemnon Book XII: The Battle At the Grecian Wall Book XIII: The Fourth Battle Continued, In Which Neptune Assists the Greeks. the Acts of Idomeneus Book XIV: Juno Deceives Jupiter By the Girdle of Venus Book XV: The Fifth Battle, At the Ships; and the Acts of Ajax Book XVI: The Sixth Battle: the Acts and Death of Patroclus Book XVII: The Seventh Battle, For the Body of Patroclus.—the Acts of Menelaus Book XVIII: The Grief of Achilles, and New Armour Made Him By Vulcan Book XIX: The Reconciliation of Achilles and Agamemnon Book XX: The Battle of the Gods, and the Acts of Achilles Book XXI: The Battle In the River Scamander PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 8 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2278 Online Library of Liberty: The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Book XXII: The Death of Hector Book XXIII: Funeral Games In Honour of Patroclus Book XXIV: The Redemption of the Body of Hector Pope’s Concluding Note. The Odyssey Book III: The Interview of Telemachus and Nestor Book V: The Departure of Ulysses From Calypso Book VII: The Court of AlcinoÜs Book IX: The Adventures of the Cicons, Lotophagi, and Cyclops Book X: Adventures With Æolus, the LÆstrygons, and Circe Book XIII: The Arrival of Ulysses In Ithaca Book XIV: The Conversation With EumÆus Book XV: The Return of Telemachus Book XVII: Book XXI: The Bending of Ulysses’ Bow Book XXII: The Death of the Suitors Book XXIV: Postscript By Pope Appendix A. a Glossary of Names of Pope’s Contemporaries Mentioned In the Poems. Bibliographical Note PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 9 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2278 Online Library of Liberty: The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope [Back to Table of Contents] EDITOR’S NOTE An attempt has been here made for the first time to include all of Pope’s poetical work within the limits of a single volume; and to print the poems in an approximately chronological order. It has been often difficult, and sometimes impossible, to determine the exact date of a given poem; and the known order of composition has been modified so far as to permit a method of grouping the shorter poems which has been followed in other volumes of his series. Only the twelve books of the Odyssey which were Pope’s own work are here included, and all of the notes to Homer are omitted. Most of Pope’s own notes to the poems have been retained, except in the case of certain notes on The Dunciad, which are so voluminous or so trivial as to find no proper place within the necessary limits of this edition. The allusions to Pope’s contemporaries are so numerous, particularly in the Satires, the Moral Essays, and The Dunciad, that it has seemed advisable to rid the main body of notes of such names as are of especial importance, or are frequently mentioned. The Glossary of Names will, it is hoped, prove useful in obviating the necessity of cross-reference. The text is the result of collation, but is based upon that of the standard Croker-Elwin- Courthope edition. As to the details of capitalization and abbreviation, a uniform though necessarily somewhat arbitrary usage has been adopted. The study of facsimiles has shown that the poet himself employed capitals quite without method. They are here used only in cases of personification or of especially important substantives. As a result of his religious preservation of the decasyllabic form of pentameter, Pope employed marks of abbreviation so profusely as often to produce a page distressing to the modern eye, and not really helpful to the modern ear. Many editors have therefore abandoned these marks altogether; in this edition they have been retained wherever they did not appear likely to prove a stumbling-block to the present generation. The usual indexes have been furnished, and a brief bibliographical note, which, while it does not pretend to exhaustiveness, may be of aid to the general reader. H. W. B. Andover,March, 1903. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 10 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2278