THE

POETICAL WORKS

ALEXANDER POPE.

TO WHICII IS PREFIXED

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR:

TWO VOLS. IN ONE

BOSTON: PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, & co.,

110 Washington Street.

1851.

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

72

PASTORALS,-Spring. . . . Page 39

Summer

• • • • • • 42

Autumn • • .

Winter . .

Messiah, A sacred Eclogue ·

Windsor Forest .

Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, 1708 -

Two Chorusses, to the Tragedy of Brutus

Ode on Solitude •

•

The Dying Christian to his Soul .. . 73

An Essay on Criticism · · ·

74

Rape of the Lock. . . . . 95

Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady 118

Prologue to Mr. Addison's Tragedy of Cato · 120

Epilogue to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore

122

Sappho to Phaon · · · · · 123

Eloisa to Abelard

• 131

The Temple of Fame - .

• 141

January and May · · · · · 155
The Wife of Bath, her Prologue

- 177

Thebais of Statius . . . . . 189

The Fable of Dryope · · · · · 213

Vertumnus and Pomona .

216

"initations of English Poets --Cheu

.220

Spenser . -

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Waller • • • • • • • 222
Cowley

. . . . . . 223

Earl of Rochester-on Silence . - 225

Earl of Dorset,-Artemisia • • 226

Phryne . . . . . . 227

Dr. Swift, Happy Life of a Country Parson in

An Essay on Man, . . - Page 228

Epistle 1.

230

Epistle II.

• • • • 239

Epistle III.

247

Epistle IV.

The Universal Prayer ·

Moral Essays,

Epistle I. To Sir Richard Temple .

II. To a Lady . . . . 281

III. To Allen, Lord Bathurst .

IV. To Richard Boyle, Earl of

Burlington • • . 301

V To Mr. Addison