SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709–84) was a poet (London, and The Vanity of Human Wishes), editor (The Rambler), literary critic and personality.
G. WILSON KNIGHT was formerly Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds and is the author of many books on Shakespeare, such as The Wheel of Fire and Principles of Shakespearean Production.
MURRAY KRIEGER is the Carpenter Professor of Literary Criticism at the University of Iowa.
MAYNARD MACK is Professor of English at Yale University and is the author of some excellent articles on Pope and the eighteenth century.
MARTIN PRICE is Professor of English at Yale University and is the author of Swift's Rhetorical Art and To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in order and energy from Dryden to Blake. HUGO M. REICHARD teaches English at Purdue University, Indiana.
GEOFFREY TILLOTSON is Professor of English Literature at Birkbeck College in the University of London and is the author of On the Poetry of Pope and Pope and Human Nature. JOSEPH WARTON (1722-1800) was a (very unsuccessful) headmaster of Winchester and a literary critic.
AUBREY WILLIAMS, who teaches at the University of Florida, is
the author of Pope's 'Dunciad': A Study of its Meaning and joint editor of the first volume of the Twickenham Edition of Pope's poetry.
Addison, Joseph 14, 15, 66, 67,
70, 76, 118, 125, 130, 131, 132n,
142, 159, 160, 165, 166, 167,
178n, 250; Cato 199; Rosamond
130
Akenside, Mark 89
ARIEL 38, 45, 57, 64, 73, 130, 132,
142, 143, 155, 156, 159, 160, 161,
163, 165, 168, 169, 170, 177n,
178n, 183, 205, 208, 210, 211, 221,
229
Bosch, Hieronymus 240
Bowles, W. L. 18, 102n
Bradley, A. C. 106
BRILLANTE 45, 109
Brooks, Cleanth 158, 160, 163,
165, 166, 170, 172, 175 n, 178n,
203, 221, 228
Brower, Reuben A. 19, 263n, 266
Brown, Sir George 13, 66
Burke, Edmund 16, 242
Burney, Fanny (Evelina) 225
Burton, R. (Anatomy of Melancholy)
Butler, Samuel (Hudibras) 51, 54,
Byron, Lord 18; Don Juan 112, 123
Caesar, Julius 126
Callimachus 81, 126
Campbell, Thomas 18, 100
Caryll, John 11, 13, 66, 70, 126
Catullus 262
Castiglione 107
Cervantes (Don Quixote) 117
Chaucer, Geoffrey 29, 89, 171
CHLOE, 172
CLARISSA 15, 23, 115, 119, 121, 129,
143, 147, 155, 159, 163, 169, 197–
198, 207, 208, 210, 211, 218, 230,
232, 236, 238, 254, 255, 258,
260
Davenant, Sir William 120
Defoe, Daniel 128
Dennis, John 19, 67, 69, 128, 131,
134n, 176, 197; Remarks on Mr
Pope's 'Rape of the Lock' 15, 16,
133n
de Villars, Abbé de Montfaucon
(Le Comte de Gabalis) 70, 71,
132, 251. See also Rosicrucians
'DIGNITY, USE AND ABUSE OF
GLASS-BOTTLES, THE, 235n
Donne, John 135-6, 151, 179n,
183, 223, 234, 235n
Drayton, Michael 96, 188
Dryden, John 18, 84, 86, 89, 97,
119, 151, 158, 182, 183, 184, 185,
186, 187, 188, 190, 191, 198, 199,
200, 226, 237, 246, 247, 251, 252,
256, 258, 260, 261, 263 n; Absalom
and Achitophel 105, 182, 183,
185, 197; The Aeneis 171, 182,
247-8, 262, 263n; Essays 132n;
Mac Flecknoe 154, 185; Ode for
Music on St Cecilia's Day 186;
Palamon and Arcite 17; To My
Dear Friend Mr Congreve 187;
To Sir Geoffrey Kneller 187
DUNCIAD, THE 16, 20, 101, 128,
185, 199, 200, 201, 202, 206,
213-18, 261, 263n
Edwards, Thomas R. 266
'ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN
UNFORTUNATE LADY' 18, 98,
ELOISA TO ABELARD 17, 18, 84,
85, 87, 95, 96, 98
Empson, W. 203
EPISTLESTO SEVERAL PERSONS
(MORAL ESSAYS) 20, 87, 90,
162, 178n, 236n, 263n
ESSAY ON CRITICISM, AN 86,
90, 263n
ESSAY ON MAN, THE 101, 141,
176n, 202, 212-13
Fenelon, François De Salignac de
la Mothe- 120
Fermor, Arabella 11, 12, 13, 14,
23, 66, 70, 115, 154, 158, 1740,
175n, 195, 210, 254, 256
Fielding, Henry 121, 224, 235n
FOPLING, SIR 188
Frost, William 190, 2001, 265
Garth, Dr Sir Samuel 15, 71, 79,
80, 81, 119, 126, 127, 133n, 176n,
185; The Dispensary 15, 79, 81,
122-5, 164, 245
Gay, John 225, 230; The Fan 125,
133n; The Shepherd's Week 199
Gray, Thomas 18, 89; The Bard
16
Guardian 23, 165, 167, 175n,
177n-8n, 244-6
Hall, John (Paradoxes) 222
Helen of Troy 23, 170
Herbert, George 227; Outlandish
Proverbs 222
Herrick, Robert 223
Hogarth, William 196
Homer (including Pope's Homer),
17, 19, 26, 27, 60, 68, 78, 85, 91,
126, 127, 132, 168, 182, 183, 190,
194, 196, 197, 198, 199, 211, 238,
244, 245, 246, 247, 250, 253, 259,
262, 265; Battle of the Frogs and
Mice 117-18, 185; The Iliad 23,
28, 78, 117, 119, 154, 168, 190,
191, 192, 194, 196, 197, 200, 228,
230-2, 234, 238, 246, 253, 254;
Margites 117; The Odyssey 117,
154, 190, 192
Horace 25, 28, 57, 97, 200, 246
Howell, James (Epistolae Ho-
Elianae) 222
Hume, David 213
Hunt, J. H. Leigh 18
Huxley, Aldous 135
Huizinga, J. 243n
Molière 25; Le Misanthrope 158,
MOMENTILLA 109
Moore, Thomas 100
Murray, Sir James 160
Okes, Nicholas 123
Oldham, John 123
Ovid 84, 96, 127, 185, 188, 189,
190, 194, 246, 260; Ars Amatoria
189; Heroides 224; Metamor-
phoses 126, 188, 189, 260-2
Oxford, Robert Harley, Earl of 13,
33, 35, 36, 38
Ozell, J. 132n−3n
Parkin, Rebecca Price 228, 265
Parnell, Thomas II
Partridge, John 44, 122
PASTORALS (of Pope) 87, 98, 195
Petre, Robert, Lord 11, 12, 66, 70,
154, 158, 174n
PLUME, SIR 13, 34, 36, 37, 108,
III, 119, 170
Price, Martin 20
Prior, Matthew 146, 176n
Propertius 96
'RECEIT TO MAKE AN EPICK
POEM, AN' 190, 244-6, 254
Reichard, Hugo 228-9
Rogers, Samuel 100
Rosicrucians 60, 67, 71, 87, 193-4,
251, 265. See also de Villars
Rousseau, J.-J. 84
Meredith, George (The Egoist) Rymer, Thomas 1320
Milton, John 17, 28, 56, 78, 85, 87,
89, 91, 100, 105, 109, 110, 114,
127, 1320, 165, 182, 183, 191,
194, 2001, 204, 207, 223, 237,
238, 244, 246, 247, 248, 252;
Comus 17, 112, 147; Paradise
Lost 27, 82, 114, 117, 130,
148–50, 154, 155, 166, 170, 228,
229, 233, 234; Samson Agonistes
MISCELLANIES 12, 23, 230, 255,
256, 260
Sacheverell, Dr 40
Sanderson, Robert 235 n
'SARPEDON TO GLAUCUS' see
Homer The Iliad
Scarron 118-19
Scott, Walter 100
Scriblerus Club 16, 180, 190, 199;
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
16n, 2000
Shakespeare 75, 86, 88, 89, 91, 92,
100, 105, 108, 109, 127, 151, 171,
188, 194; Antony and Cleopatra
110, 170; As You Like It 114;
Cymbeline 235n; Hamlet 172,
227; Henry VI 183; Love's
Labour's Lost 105, 115; The
Merchant of Venice 114; A
Midsummer Night's Dream 74,
188; Othello 54, 132n, 171, 178n;
The Passionate Pilgrim 222, 224;
Pericles 223; The Taming of the
Shrew 115; The Tempest 17, 74;
Troilus and Cressida 220, 258;
The Winter's Tale 235n
Shelley, P. B. (Prometheus Un-
bound) 109
Sherburn, George 159, 184, 266
SHOCK 40, 131
Sitwell, Edith 116n
Southey, Robert 100
Spectator 15, 133n, 159, 160, 162,
165, 166, 167, 175-9n, 184, 186,
Spence, Joseph 11, 12, 13, 15, 263 n
Spenser, Edmund 33, 86, 87, 89,
236, 240, 246; Amoretti 14;
The Fairie Queene 17, 114
Statius 246
Steele, Richard 40, 125, 159, 160,
165, 176n, 244; The Funeral:
or Grief A-La-Mode 224
Stockdale, R. 84, 85, 86, 88
Swift, Jonathan 16, 136, 158, 199,
214, 215, 217; The Battle of the
Books 81; Gulliver's Travels 16,
87; A Tale of a Tub 81
Tarquin 24
Tasso 28, 56, 117
Tassoni 119, 121, 122, 123, 126,
127, 185
Tate, Allen 203, 206
Tatler 159, 161, 167, 175 n, 178n,
TEMPLE OF FAME, THE (of
Pope) 171
THALESTRIS 36, 37, 52, 79, 108, 119,
145, 156, 164, 171, 172, 198, 230,
231, 238, 254, 259
Waller, Edmund 125, 197
Warburton, William 11, 68, 130,
137-8, 193
Warmsley, Catherine 174n
Warton, Joseph 17-18, 97, 102n;
Essay on the Genius and Writings
of Pope 16, 18
Wasserman, Earl R. 19, 265
Wimsatt, W. K. 158, 235n, 266
WINDSOR FOREST 87, 98, 105,
106, 112, 186, 195, 196, 242, 261
Wordsworth, William 100
Wycherley, William 185;
Country Wife 235
Yeats, W. B. 138, 205, 258, 264
Young, Edward 89
Thomson, James 98; The Castle of ZEPHYRETTA 45, 109
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