Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan period and one of its greatest artistic exponents.[1] Considered the foremost English poet of the early 18th century and a master of the heroic couplet, he is best known for satirical and discursive poetry, including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism, and for his translation of Homer. After Shakespeare, he is the second-most quoted author in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations,[2] some of his verses having entered common parlance (e.g. “damning with faint praise” or “to err is human; to forgive, divine“).
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TABLE OF CONTENTS for Complete Works
Biographical Sketch
Early Poems
Ode On Solitude
A Paraphrase (on Thomas 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 gon [ ] 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
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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
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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
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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
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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 [ ]
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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 [ ]
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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
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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 Alcino s
Book IX: The Adventures of the Cicons, Lotophagi, and Cyclops
Book X: Adventures With olus, the L strygons, and Circe
Book XIII: The Arrival of Ulysses In Ithaca
Book XIV: The Conversation With Eum us
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
POPE’s VILLA & GRATTO
Pope’s villa was the residence of Alexander Pope at Twickenham, then a village west of London in Middlesex. He moved there in 1719 and created gardens and an underground grotto. The house and grotto were topics of 18th- and 19th-century poetry and art. In about 1845, a neo-Tudor house known as Pope’s Villa was built on approximately the same site; it has been used as a school since the early 20th century. Pope’s Grotto, which is listed Grade II* by Historic England, survives and is occasionally open to the public.
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