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A compiled index organizes the author's verse, translations, essays, and correspondence into a navigable table of contents. Major items include moral and critical poems, narrative pieces, collections of poetical works, and translations of classical epics, with book-by-book breakdowns for the Odyssey and the Iliad. The index also lists letters and miscellaneous works and notes the presence of introductions, prefaces, and editorial annotations, presenting a practical roadmap to the corpus and its division into volumes and individual sections.

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Title: Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Alexander Pope

Author: Alexander Pope

Editor: David Widger

Release date: February 8, 2019 [eBook #58845]
Most recently updated: April 6, 2023

Language: English

Credits: Produced by David Widger

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INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG

WORKS OF

ALEXANDER POPE



Compiled by David Widger






CONTENTS

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ESSAY ON MAN

##  THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER

##  THE ILIAD OF HOMER

AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM

##  POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE, Vol. I

##  POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE, Vol. II

##  RAPE OF LOCK AND OTHER POEMS

##  THE WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE, Vol. 1

##  THE WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE, Vol. 2

##  THE LETTERS OF ABELARD AND HELOISE

THREE HOURS AFTER MARRIAGE







TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES





THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER

Translated by Alexander Pope



CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER
BOOK I MINERVA'S DESCENT TO ITHACA.
BOOK II. THE COUNCIL OF ITHACA.
BOOK III THE INTERVIEW OF TELEMACHUS AND NESTOR.
BOOK IV. THE CONFERENCE WITH MENELAUS.
BOOK V. THE DEPARTURE OF ULYSSES FROM CALYPSO
BOOK VI.
BOOK VII.
BOOK VIII.
BOOK IX. THE ADVENTURES OF THE CICONS, LOTOPHAGI AND CYCLOPS
BOOK X. ADVENTURES WITH AEOLUS, THE LAESTRYGONS, AND CIRCE.
BOOK XI. THE DESCENT INTO HELL.
BOOK XII THE SIRENE, SCYLLA, AND CHARYBDIS.
BOOK XIII THE ARRIVAL OF ULYSSES IN ITHACA.
BOOK XIV. THE CONVERSATION WITH EUMAEUS.
BOOK XV. THE RETURN OF TELEMACHUS.
BOOK XVI. THE DISCOVERY OF ULYSSES TO TELEMACHUS.
BOOK XVII.
BOOK XVIII. THE FIGHT OF ULYSSES AND IRUS.
BOOK XIX. THE DISCOVERY OF ULYSSES TO EURYCLEA.
BOOK XX.
BOOK XXI. THE BENDING OF ULYSSES' BOW.
BOOK XXII. THE DEATH OF THE SUITORS.
BOOK XXIII.
BOOK XXIV.





THE ILIAD OF HOMER

Translated by Alexander Pope

With notes by Theodore Alois Buckley

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION.
POPE'S PREFACE TO THE ILIAD OF HOMER
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 DIOMED 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.
BOOK XXII. THE DEATH OF HECTOR.
BOOK XXIII. FUNERAL GAMES IN HONOUR OF PATROCLUS.
BOOK XXIV. THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY OF HECTOR.
CONCLUDING NOTE.

ILLUSTRATIONS

HOMER INVOKING THE MUSE.
MARS.
MINERVA REPRESSING THE FURY OF ACHILLES.
THE DEPARTURE OF BRISEIS FROM THE TENT OF ACHILLES.
THETIS CALLING BRIAREUS TO THE ASSISTANCE OF JUPITER.
THETIS ENTREATING JUPITER TO HONOUR ACHILLES.
VULCAN.
JUPITER.
THE APOTHEOSIS OF HOMER.
JUPITER SENDING THE EVIL DREAM TO AGAMEMNON.
NEPTUNE.
VENUS, DISGUISED, INVITING HELEN TO THE CHAMBER OF PARIS.
VENUS PRESENTING HELEN TO PARIS.
VENUS.
Map, titled "Graeciae Antiquae".
THE COUNCIL OF THE GODS.
Map of the Plain of Troy.
VENUS, WOUNDED IN THE HAND, CONDUCTED BY IRIS TO MARS.
OTUS AND EPHIALTES HOLDING MARS CAPTIVE.
DIOMED CASTING HIS SPEAR AT MARS.
JUNO.
HECTOR CHIDING PARIS.
THE MEETING OF HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE.
BOWS AND BOW CASE.
IRIS.
HECTOR AND AJAX SEPARATED BY THE HERALDS.
GREEK AMPHORAâ?"WINE VESSELS.
JUNO AND MINERVA GOING TO ASSIST THE GREEKS.
THE HOURS TAKING THE HORSES FROM JUNO'S CAR.
THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES.
PLUTO.
THE EMBASSY TO ACHILLES.
GREEK GALLEY.
PROSERPINE.
ACHILLES.
DIOMED AND ULYSSES RETURNING WITH THE SPOILS OF RHESUS.
THE DESCENT OF DISCORD.
HERCULES.
POLYDAMAS ADVISING HECTOR.
GREEK ALTAR.
NEPTUNE RISING FROM THE SEA.
GREEK EARRINGS.
SLEEP ESCAPING FROM THE WRATH OF JUPITER.
GREEK SHIELD.
BACCHUS.
AJAX DEFENDING THE GREEK SHIPS.
CASTOR AND POLLUX.
Buckles.
DIANA.
SLEEP AND DEATH CONVEYING THE BODY OF SARPEDON TO LYCIA.
Ã?SCULAPIUS.
FIGHT FOR THE BODY OF PATROCLUS.
VULCAN FROM AN ANTIQUE GEM.
THETIS ORDERING THE NEREIDS TO DESCEND INTO THE SEA.
JUNO COMMANDING THE SUN TO SET.
TRIPOD.
THETIS AND EURYNOME RECEIVING THE INFANT VULCAN.
VULCAN AND CHARIS RECEIVING THETIS.
THETIS BRINGING THE ARMOUR TO ACHILLES.
HERCULES.
THE GODS DESCENDING TO BATTLE.
CENTAUR.
ACHILLES CONTENDING WITH THE RIVERS.
THE BATH.
ANDROMACHE FAINTING ON THE WALL.
THE FUNERAL PILE OF PATROCLUS.
CERES.
HECTOR'S BODY AT THE CAR OF ACHILLES.
THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS.
IRIS ADVISES PRIAM TO OBTAIN THE BODY OF HECTOR.
FUNERAL OF HECTOR.





THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE

VOL. I.

With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes

By George Gilfillan

M.DCCC.LVI.



CONTENTS

LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE
POPE'S POETICAL WORKS.
PREFACE.[2]
VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR'S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE.
PASTORALS,
SPRING — THE FIRST PASTORAL, OR DAMON.
VARIATIONS
SUMMER — THE SECOND PASTORAL, OR ALEXIS.
VARIATIONS.
AUTUMN. — THE THIRD PASTORAL, Or HYLAS AND ÆGON.
VARIATIONS.
WINTER. — THE FOURTH PASTORAL, OR DAPHNE.
VARIATIONS.
MESSIAH. — A SACRED ECLOGUE, IN IMITATION OF VIRGIL'S 'POLLIO.'
AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM.
Introduction.—That 'tis as great a fault to judge ill, as to write ill,
THE RAPE OF THE LOCK:
CANTO I.
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 LADY[58]
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,
IV. COWLEY.
WEEPING.
V. EARL OF ROCHESTER.
VI. EARL OF DORSET.
VII. DR SWIFT.
THE TEMPLE OF FAME.
ELOISA TO ABELARD.
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.
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.
EPISTLE TO DR ARBUTHNOT; OR, PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES.
SATIRES AND EPISTLES OF HORACE IMITATED.
THE FIRST EPISTLE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE.
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.
THE SATIRES OF DR JOHN DONNE, DEAN OF ST PAUL'S,[171] VERSIFIED.
EPILOGUE[177] TO THE SATIRES. IN TWO DIALOGUES. (WRITTEN IN MDCCXXXVIII.)
FOOTNOTES:





THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE

With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes,

By George Gilfillan

VOL. II.

M.DCCC.LVI.



CONTENTS

THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE.
MORAL ESSAYS.
EPISTLE I.—TO SIR RICHARD TEMPLE, LORD COBHAM. OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND CHARACTERS OF MEN.
EPISTLE III.[20]—TO ALLEN LORD BATHURST. OF THE USE OF RICHES.
EPISTLE IV.—TO RICHARD BOYLE, EARL OF BURLINGTON. OF THE USE OF RICHES.
EPISTLE V. TO MR ADDISON. OCCASIONED BY HIS DIALOGUES ON MEDALS.[54]
TRANSLATIONS AND IMITATIONS. SAPPHO TO PHAON. FROM THE FIFTEENTH OF OVID'S EPISTLES.
THE FABLE OF DRYOPE.[56] FROM THE NINTH BOOK OF OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.
VERTUMNUS AND POMONA, FROM THE FOURTEENTH BOOK OF OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.
THE FIRST BOOK OF STATIUS'S THEBAIS. TRANSLATED IN THE YEAR 1703.
JANUARY AND MAY. FROM CHAUCER.[58]
THE WIFE OF BATH, HER PROLOGUE. FROM CHAUCER.
PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUES
A 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.
PROLOGUE TO MR ADDISON'S 'CATO.'
PROLOGUE TO THOMSON'S 'SOPHONISBA.'[59]
PROLOGUE, DESIGNED FOR MR D'URFEY'S LAST PLAY.
PROLOGUE TO 'THE THREE HOURS AFTER MARRIAGE'
EPILOGUE TO MR ROWE'S 'JANE SHORE.' DESIGNED FOR MRS OLDFIELD.
MISCELLANIES
THE BASSET-TABLE.[62] AN ECLOGUE.
LINES ON RECEIVING FROM THE EIGHT HON. THE LADY FRANCES SHIRLEY[63] A STANDISH AND TWO PENS.
VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU. UN JOUR DIT UN AUTEUR, ETC.
ANSWER TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION OF MRS HOWE.
OCCASIONED BY SOME VERSES OF HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.
MACER: A CHARACTER.
SONG, BY A PERSON OF QUALITY, WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1733.
ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT.
ON HIS GROTTO AT TWICKENHAM, COMPOSED OF MARBLES, SPARS, GEMS, ORES, AND MINERALS.
ROXANA, OR THE DRAWING-ROOM. AN ECLOGUE.
TO LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE.
EXTEMPORANEOUS LINES ON A PORTRAIT OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE, PAINTED BY KNELLER.
LINES SUNG BY DURASTANTI, WHEN SHE TOOK LEAVE OF THE ENGLISH STAGE.
UPON THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH'S HOUSE AT WOODSTOCK.
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 ARGYLL, JULY 9, 1739.
THE CHALLENGE, A COURT BALLAD. TO THE TUNE OF 'TO ALL YOU LADIES NOW AT LAND.'
THE THREE GENTLE SHEPHERDS.
EPIGRAM, ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG WHICH I GAVE TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS.
THE TRANSLATOR.
THE LOOKING-GLASS. ON MRS PULTENEY.[81]
A FAREWELL TO LONDON IN THE YEAR 1715.
SANDYS' GHOST;[82] OR, A PROPER NEW BALLAD ON THE NEW OVID'S METAMORPHOSES: AS IT WAS INTENDED TO BE TRANSLATED BY PERSONS OF QUALITY.
UMBRA.[85]
SYLVIA, A FRAGMENT.
IMPROMPTU TO LADY WINCHELSEA. OCCASIONED BY FOUR SATIRICAL VERSES ON WOMEN WITS, IN 'THE RAPE OF THE LOCK.'
EPIGRAM.
EPIGRAM ON THE FEUDS ABOUT HANDEL AND BONONCINI.
ON MRS TOFTS, A CELEBRATED OPERA SINGER.
THE BALANCE OF EUROPE.
EPITAPH ON LORD CONINGSBY.
EPIGRAM.
EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH.
EPITAPH ON GAY.
EPIGRAM ON THE TOASTS OF THE KIT-CAT CLUB, ANNO 1716.
TO A LADY, WITH THE 'TEMPLE OF FAME.'
ON THE COUNTESS OF BURLINGTON CUTTING PAPER.
ON DRAWINGS OF THE STATUES OF APOLLO, VENUS, AND HERCULES, MADE FOR POPE BY SIR GODFREY KNELLER.
ON BENTLEY'S 'MILTON.'
LINES WRITTEN IN WINDSOR FOREST.
TO ERINNA.
A DIALOGUE.
ODE TO QUINBUS FLESTRIN, THE MAN MOUNTAIN,[87] BY TITTY TIT, POET-LAUREATE TO HIS MAJESTY OF LILLIPUT. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH.
THE LAMENTATION OF GLUMDALCLITCH FOR THE LOSS OF GRILDRIG. A PASTORAL.
TO MR LEMUEL GULLIVER, THE GRATEFUL ADDRESS OF THE UNHAPPY HOUYHNHNMS, NOW IN SLAVERY AND BONDAGE IN ENGLAND.
MARY GULLIVER TO CAPTAIN LEMUEL GULLIVER. AN EPISTLE.
1740. A FRAGMENT OF A POEM.
THE FOURTH EPISTLE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE.[128]
EPIGRAM ON ONE WHO MADE LONG EPITAPHS.[129]
ON AN OLD GATE. ERECTED IN CHISWICK GARDENS.
A FRAGMENT.
TO MR GAY, WHO HAD CONGRATULATED POPE ON FINISHING HIS HOUSE AND GARDENS.
ARGUS.
PRAYER OF BRUTUS. FROM GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH.
LINES ON A GROTTO, AT CRUX-EASTON, HANTS.
THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER, DEO OPT. MAX.
THE DUNCIAD. IN FOUR BOOKS.
A LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER, OCCASIONED BY THE FIRST CORRECT EDITION OF THE DUNCIAD.
MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS HIS PROLEGOMENA AND ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE DUNCIAD: WITH THE HYPERCRITICS OF ARISTARCHUS.
TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS CONCERNING OUR POET AND HIS WORKS.
THE DUNCIAD:[234] BOOK THE FIRST. TO DR JONATHAN SWIFT.
BOOK THE SECOND.
BOOK THE THIRD.
BOOK THE FOURTH.
BY THE AUTHOR. A DECLARATION.
APPENDIX TO THE DUNCIAD.
INDEX OF PERSONS CELEBRATED IN THIS POEM.
FOOTNOTES: