Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1: Poetry - Volume 1The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title: The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Author: Alexander Pope Contributor: Whitwell Elwin Release date: May 2, 2010 [eBook #32190] Language: English Other information and formats: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32190 Credits: Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE, VOLUME 1 *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. THE WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE. NEW EDITION. INCLUDING SEVERAL HUNDRED UNPUBLISHED LETTERS, AND OTHER NEW MATERIALS. COLLECTED IN PART BY THE LATE R'T. HON. JOHN WILSON CROKER. WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES. BY REV. WHITWELL ELWIN. VOL. I. POETRY.--VOL. I. WITH PORTRAITS AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1871. [_The right of Translation is reserved._] LONDON: BRADBURY, EVANS, AND CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME OF POETRY. 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 CATALOGUE OF POPE'S COLLECTED EDITIONS OF HIS WORKS. The Works of Mr. ALEXANDER POPE. London: Printed by W. BOWYER for BERNARD LINTOT, between the Temple Gates, 1717. 4to and folio. This volume consists of all the acknowledged poems which Pope had hitherto published, with the addition of some new pieces. The Works of Mr. ALEXANDER POPE. Volume ii. London: Printed by J. WRIGHT, for LAWTON GILLIVER, at Homer's Head in Fleet Street, 1735. 4to and folio. The volume of 1735 contains, with a few exceptions, the poems which Pope had printed since 1717. The pages of each group of pieces--Epistles, Satires, Epitaphs, etc.--are numbered separately, and there are other irregularities in the numbers, arising from a change in the order of the Moral Essays after the sheets were struck off. Letters of Mr. ALEXANDER POPE, and Several of his friends. London: Printed by J. WRIGHT for J. KNAPTON in Ludgate Street, L. GILLIVER in Fleet Street, J. BRINDLEY in New Bond Street, and R. DODSLEY in Pall-Mall, 1737. 4to and folio. This is Pope's first avowed edition of his letters. A half-title, "The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope in Prose," precedes the title-page. The Works of Mr. ALEXANDER POPE, in Prose. Vol. ii. London: Printed for J. and P. KNAPTON, C. BATHURST, and R. DODSLEY, 1741. 4to and folio. The half-title is more precise: "The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, in Prose. Vol. ii. Containing the rest of his Letters, with the Memoirs of Scriblerus, never before printed; and other Tracts written either singly, or in conjunction with his friends. Now first collected together." The letters are the Swift correspondence, and they are in a different type from the rest of the book. The numbers of the pages are very irregular, and show that the contents and arrangement of the volume had been greatly altered from some previous impression. The folio copies of the two volumes of poetry, and the two of prose, are merely the quarto text portioned out into longer pages, without a single leaf being reprinted. The trifling variations from the quartos were introduced when the matter was put into the folio size. The Works of ALEXANDER POPE, ESQ.; vol. i. with explanatory Notes and Additions never before printed. London: Printed for B. LINTOT, 1736. Small 8vo. This is the first volume of an edition which extended to nine volumes, and which from the want of uniformity in the title-pages, the dates, and names of the publishers appears to consist of odd volumes. The copyright of Pope's works belonged to different proprietors, and they at last agreed to print their respective shares in small octavo, that the several parts united might form a complete set. Each proprietor commenced printing his particular section of the octavos when the previous sizes he had on hand were sold, and thus it happened that the second volume of the edition came out in 1735 before the first, which was published in 1736. The series was not finished till 1742, when the fourth book of the Dunciad was added to the Poems, and the Swift Correspondence to the Letters. Some of the volumes were reprinted, and the later editions occasionally differ slightly from their predecessors. The Poems and Letters of Pope are more complete in the octavos than in the quartos, but the octavos, on the other hand, omit all the prose works except the Letters, and the Memoirs of Scriblerus, and octavos and quartos combined are imperfect in comparison with the editions which have been published since Pope's death. A MEMORIAL LIST OF DEPARTED RELATIONS AND FRIENDS. WRITTEN BY POPE IN AN ELZEVIR VIRGIL, NOW IN THE LIBRARY OF THE EARL OF MANSFIELD.[1] NATUS MAJI 21, 1688, HORA POST MERID. 6-3/4. Quo desiderio veteres revocamus amores Atque olim amissas flemus amicitias. _Catullus._ Anno 1700, Maji primo, obit, semper venerandus, poetarum princeps, Joannes Dryden, aet. 70.[2] Anno 1708, mens. Aprili, obiit Gulielmus Walsh, criticus sagax, amicus et vir bonus, aet. 49. Anno 1710, Jan. 24, Avita mea piissimae mem., Eliz. Turner, migravit in coelum, annum agens 74. Anno 1710, mens. Aprili, Tho. Betterton, Roscius sui temporis, exit omnium cum plausu bonorum, aet. 74. Anno 1712, mens. Januario, decessit vir facetissimus, juventutis meae deliciae, Antonius Englefleld, aet. 75. Anno 1718, obit Tho. Parnell, poetica laude, et moribus suavissimis insignis. Anno 1715, mens. Martio, decessit Gul. Wycherley, poeta morum scientia clarus, ille meos primus qui habebat amores, aet. 75. Anno 1716, mens. Decemb. obit Gulielmus Trumbull, olim Regi Gul. a secretis, annum agens 75. Amicus meus humanissimus a juvenilibus annis. Pater meus, Alex. Pope, omnibus bonis moribus praeditus |