The major works / Alexander Pope ; edited with an introduction and notes by Pat Rogers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 575-713) and indexes.

Pastorals -- An essay on criticism -- Sappho to Phaon -- Epistle to Miss Blount, with the works of Voiture -- Windsor Forest -- The Guardian, no. 173 -- The wife of Bath from Chaucer -- The rape of the lock --To Belinda on The rape of the lock -- Letter to Martha Blount, November 1714 -- The temple of fame -- A farewell to London in the year 1715 -- Epistle to Mr Jervas -- Epistle to Miss Blount, on her leaving the town after the coronation -- A full and true account of a horrid and barbarous revenge -- A further account of the condition of Edmund Curll -- Letter to Lord Burlington, November 1716 -- Eloisa to Abelard -- Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady -- Letter to Teresa and Martha Blount, September 1717 -- Letter to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1718 -- The Iliad, book XVIII -- To Mr Gay -- To Mr Addison -- Epistle to Robert Earl of Oxford -- Letter to Swift, August 1723 -- Letter to Martha Blount, 22 June 1724 -- Preface to the works of Shakespeare -- Peri Bathous, or the art of sinking in poetry -- Letter to Swift, 28 November 1729 -- Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton -- An epistle to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington -- An epistle to Allen Lord Bathurst -- The first satire of the second book of Horace imitated -- An essay on man -- Letter to Swift, 20 April 1733 -- The fourth satire of Dr John Donne versified -- An epistle to Sir Richard Temple, Lord Cobham -- The second satire of the second book of Horace imitated -- The second satire of the first book of Horace imitated in the manner of Mr Pope -- An epistle to Dr Arbuthnot -- An epistle to a lady -- The second satire of Dr John Donne versified -- Letter to Swift, 25 March 1736 -- The second epistle of the second book of Horace imitated -- The first epistle of the second book of Horace imitated -- The sixth epistle of the first book of Horace imitated -- The first epistle of the first book of Horace imitated -- Epilogue to the satires : dialogue I -- Epilogue to the satires : dialogue II -- Epigram engraved on the collar of a dog -- Epitaph for one who would not be buried in Westminster Abbey -- Letter to Hugh Bethel, 19 March 1744 -- The Dunciad -- Epitaph on bounce -- Conversations with Joseph Spence.

This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Pope's poetry and prose - the major poems in their entirety, together with translations, criticism, letters and other prose - to give the essence of his work and thinking.

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