THE RAPE OF THE LOCK AND OTHER POEMS

Edited with introduction and notes by Thomas Marc Parrott

CONTENTS

Preface
Introduction
Chief Dates in Pope's Life
The Rape of the Lock
An Essay on Criticism
Contents (tabulated)
An Essay on Criticism
An Essay on Man, Epistle I
The Design
Argument of Epistle I (tabulated)
Epistle I
An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Advertisement to the First Publication
Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
Ode on Solitude
The Descent of Dullness (from The Dunciad, Book IV)
Epitaph on Gay
NOTES ON:
The Rape of the Lock
An Essay on Criticism
An Essay on Man, Epistle I
An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
An Ode on Solitude
The Descent of Dullness
The Epitaph on Gay
Appendix: First Edition of the Rape of the Lock





THE WORKS ALEXANDER POPE.

WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES BY WHITWELL ELWIN.

VOL. I.

POETRY



CONTENTS

PAGE Catalogue of Pope's collected Editions of his Works
vii Pope's Memorial List of Relations and Friends
ix Advertisement of Warburton To his Edition of Pope's Works
xi Introduction
xv



The Author's Preface 1
Recommendatory Poems 17
Translations 37
The First Book of Statius's Thebais 41
Sappho To Phaon from Ovid 87
The Fable of Dryope from Ovid 104
Vertumnus and Pomona from Ovid 108
January and May, from Chaucer 113
The Wife of Bath, from Chaucer 155
The Temple of Fame 185
Pastorals 231
Discourse of Pastoral Poetry 257 1.
Spring, to Sir William Trumbull 265 2.
Summer to Dr. Garth 276 3.
Autumn to Mr. Wycherley 285 4.
Winter, to the Memory of Mrs. Tempest 292
Messiah, a Sacred Eclogue 301
Windsor Forest 319





THE WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE

With Introductions And Notes Whitwell Elwin

POETRY--VOL. II.



CONTENTS

AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM.
APPENDIX.
THE COMMENTARY AND NOTES OF W. WARBURTON ON THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM.
RAPE OF THE LOCK.
ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY.
ELOISA TO ABELARD.
AN ESSAY ON MAN.
THE ARGUMENT.
THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER.
APPENDIX.
NOTES on "An Essay on Man".
NOTES OF W. WARBURTON ON THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER.
FOOTNOTES.





LETTERS OF ABELARD AND HELOISE.

To Which Is Prefix'd A Particular Account Of Their Lives, Amours, And Misfortunes.



CONTENTS

The History of Abelard and Heloise
LETTERS.
I. Abelard to Philintus.
II. Heloise to Abelard.
III. Abelard to Heloise.
IV. Heloise to Abelard.
V. Heloise to Abelard.
VI. Abelard to Heloise.
VII. Eloisa to Abelard. A poem. by Mr. Pope.
VIII. Abelard to Eloisa. A poem. by Mrs. Madan.