The Life of
Alexander
Pope.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09
]
Verses upon the late D-ss of M_ By Mr P-1746. [A folio sheet
containing the character of Atossa, which had been included in Ep. 11 in
the edition of the Ethic Epistles left by Pope printed for publication.
This edn was suppressed by Bolingbroke's influence and the presentation
copies recalled with the exception, apparently, of one only, now in Brit.
Mus. This sheet, containing the character, was published, it would seem,
## p. 446 (#470) ############################################
446
Bibliography
by Bolingbroke or his agent (see Courthope's Life, p. 347) with an
injurious note mentioning that Pope received £1000 from the duchess to
suppress the lines. ]
IV. POETICAL TRANSLATIONS
The first book of Statius's Thebais. In Lintot's Miscellany. 1712.
Vertumnus and Pomona. From the fourteenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
In Lintot's Miscellany. 1712.
Sappho to Phaon. In Ovid's Epistles translated by several hands. 8th edn.
Tonson. 1712.
The Fable of Dryope. From the ninth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. In
the same.
January and May: or, the Merchant's Tale. From Chaucer. In Poetic
Miscellanies, the sixth part. Tonson. 1709.
The Wife of Bath, her Prologue. From Chaucer. In Poetical Miscellanies,
consisting of original poems and translations. By the best hands. Puh-
lish'd by Mr Steele. 1714.
The Temple of Fame: a vision. B. Lintot. 1715.
The Niad of Homer (published by Bernard Lintot). Vol. 1, 1715; vol. 11,
1716; vol. 111, 1717; vol. iv, 1718; vols. V and vi, 1720.
The episode of Sarpedon, from the twelfth and sixteenth books of
Homer's Iliad, appeared in Poetic Miscellanies, the sixth part. Tonson.
1709.
The Odyssey of Homer. Vols. 1-111, 1725; vols. IV, V, 1726.
A translation of the arrival of Ulysses in Ithaca from the 13th Odyssey
and of the garden of Alcinous from the 7th appeared in Steele's Miscellany.
1714.
The Satires of Dr John Donne, versified. Satire ii and Satire iv were
published in vol. II of Pope's Works, 1735.
The Impertinent, or A Visit to the Court. A Satire. By an Eminent
Hand [in great part the same as Satire iv of the above). 1733.
V. PROSE (including Letters)
The Works of Mr Alexander Pope in Prose. Vol. 1, 1737; vol. II,
1741.
The Guardian, No. 4, 16 March 1713 (Dedications). No. 11 (An elixir that
confers an agreeable madness). No. 40 (Pastorals). [Ironical comparison
between Ambrose Philips and Pope. ] No. 61 (Cruelty to Animals). [Leigh
Hunt has emphasised Pope's kindness for animals in his Imaginary
Conversations of Pope and Swift. ] Nos. 91 and 92 (The Club of little
men). No. 173, 29 Sept. 1713 (Gardens).
The Narrative of Dr Robert Norris, concerning the strange and deplorable
Frenzy of Mr J. Denn-an officer in the Custom-House. 1713.
A Key to the Lock; or a Treatise proving beyond all contradiction, the
dangerous tendency of a late poem intituled, the Rape of the Lock. . . by
Esdras Barnivelt. 1715.
A full and true Account of a horrid and barbarons Revenge by poison, on
the body of Mr Edmund Curll, Bookseller, with a faithful copy of his
last Will and Testament. 1716.
Three Hours after Marriage; a comedy. 1717. (Arbuthnot and Pope
assisted Gay in writing this. ]
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Miscellanies [by Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot and Gay]. Vols. I and 11, 1727;
vol. 111, 1728; vol. iv, 1732. [Contains verse as well as prose. ]
Familiar Letters written to Henry Cromwell, Esq. , by Mr Pope. In Curll's
Miscellanea, in two volumes. Never before published. 1727 (really 1726).
Letters of Mr Pope and several eminent persons. 2 vols. 1735.
See A Narrative of the method by which Mr Pope's private letters were
procured and published by Edmund Curll, bookseller, 1735.
Letters of Mr Alexander Pope, and several of his Friends. 1737. [The
acknowledged edition, printed for J. Knapton and others. ]
The Works of Mr Alexander Pope, in Prose. Vol. 11. 1741. [Printed for
Knapton and others. Contains, besides further letters, the Memoirs of
Scriblerus and other tracts written by Pope either singly or in conjunction
with his friends. ]
The Dublin editions of Letters to and from Dr J. Swift appear to have
been published after vol. II mentioned above.
A Collection of Letters, never before printed; written by Alexander Pope
and other ingenious gentlemen to the late Aaron Hill. 1751.
Supplemental Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope. 1825. [Containing
a considerable addition to his private correspondence. ]
The Works of Shakespear. . . collated and corrected by the former editions,
by Mr Pope. Tonson. 1725.
VI. ANNOTATED EDITIONS OF SEPARATE WORKS
Essay on Criticism. Ed. , with introduction and notes, West, A. S. Cambridge,
1896. Ed. , with introduction and notes, Collins, J. Churton. 1896. Ed. ,
with introduction and notes, Ryland, F. 1900.
Essay on Man. Ed. Pattison, Mark. Oxford, 1869. 2nd edn. 1872.
Satires and Epistles. Ed. Pattison, Mark. Oxford, 1872. 2nd edn. 1874.
The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. A new edition,
with additional notes, critical and illustrative, by Wakefield, Gilbert.
5 vols. 1806.
The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. A new
edition, etc. by Wakefield, Gilbert. 4 vols. 1806.
The Rape of the Lock. Ed. , with introduction and notes, Ryland, F. 1899.
The Rape of the Lock and other poems. Ed. , with introduction and
notes, Parrott, T. M. Boston (U. S. A. ), 1906. Illustrated edn by Beardsley,
Aubrey. 1896.
VII. BIOGRAPHY
The early lives of Pope, two anon. in 1744, those under the names of Ayre,
W. , 1745, Dilworth, W. H. , 1759, have no value. Owen Ruff head's, 1769, has
some unpublished letters and material supplied by Warburton.
Carruthers, R. The Life of Alexander Pope, including Extracts from his
Correspondence. . . Second edition. 1857.
Courthope, W. J.
The Life of Alexander Pope. 1889. Vol. v of Elwin
and Courthope's edition of Pope's Works.
Davies, Robert. Pope: Additional Facts concerning his Maternal Ancestry, .
1858.
Dilke, Charles Wentworth. The Papers of a Critic. Vol. I. 1875. [Papers
rptd from the Athenaeum and Notes and Queries in which D. had in-
vestigated various problems connected with the publication and arrange-
ment of Pope's correspondence, and the facts of his biography. ]
8
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448
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:
Hunter, Joseph. Pope: His Descent and Family Connections. 1857. No. v
of Hunter's Critical and Historical Tracts. (See Dilke, C. W, in
Athenaeum, 21 Nov. 1857; Papers of a Critic, vol. 1, 234. ]
Johnson, Samuel. Prefaces, biographical and critical, to the Works of the
English Poets. 1779-81. See Hill, G. Birkbeck's edn of Johnson's
Lives, vol. 111, Oxford, 1905.
Paston, George (Symonds, Miss E. M. ). Mr Pope: his Life and Times.
2 vols. 1909. [Unpublished letters in the Mapledurham collection and
elsewhere are utilised in this work. ]
Richardson, Jonathan, the younger. Richardsoniana: or occasional reflec-
tions on the moral nature of man. . . with several anecdotes interspersed.
1776.
Spence, Joseph. Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and
Men. Collected from the Conversation of Mr Pope, and other Eminent
Persons of his time. Now first published. . . by Samuel Weller Singer.
1820. [The edn published on the same day by Murray with Malone's
notes is only a selection. ] Rptd 1858.
Stephen, Sir Leslie. Alexander Pope. English Men of Letters. 1880.
Pope Commemoration, 1888. Loan Museum Catalogue of the books, anto-
graphs, paintings and personal relics exhibited in the Town Hall,
Twickenham. Edited by Tedder, H. R. (with an introductory poem by
Dobson, Austin). (See sec. IX, post. ) 1888.
VIII. CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM, CONTROVERSY AND PERSONALITIES
Addison, Joseph. The Spectator, No. 253, 20 December 1711. (Notice of
An Essay on Criticism. )
Dennis, John. Reflections upon a late rhapsody called An Essay upon
Criticism. B. Lintot. [1711. ]
Homerides, or, a letter to Mr Pope occasion'd by his intended translation of
Homer by Sir Iliad Doggrel (Thomas Burnet). 1715.
Mist's Weekly Journal. 1716-28.
Dennis, John. A true character of Mr Pope. [1717. ]
Remarks upon Mr Pope's translation of Homer. With two letters
concerning Windsor Forest, and the Temple of Fame. 1717.
Spence, Joseph. An Essay on Pope's Odyssey : in which some particular
Beauties and Blemishes of that work are considered. London and
Oxford, 1726.
Spence's chief critical work, Polymetis: or an Enquiry concerning the
agreement between the Works of the Roman Poets and the Remains of
the Antient Artists, appeared in 1747. As to his Account of Stephen
Duck and other lesser publications, see Garnett, R. , art. Spence, in D. of
N. B. vol. LIII.
Theobald, Lewis. Shakespeare Restored: or, a Specimen of the many Errors,
as well committed, as unamended by Mr Pope, in his late Edition of this
Poet. . . . 1726.
Dennis, John. Remarks on Mr Pope's Rape of the Lock. 1728.
Gulliveriana: or, a fourth volume of miscellanies, being a sequel of the three
volumes published by Pope and Swift. To which is added, Alexanderiana;
or a comparison between the Ecclesiastical and Poetical Pope. 1728.
[By Jonathan Smedley, whose name was in consequence substituted in
1729 for Eusden's in Danciad, 11, 291. ]
Dennis, John. Remarks upon several passages in the preliminaries to the
Dunciad. . . 1729.
:
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449
One Epistle to Mr A. Pope, occasion'd by Two Epistles lately published [i. e.
Two Epistles to Mr Pope, Concerning the Authors of the Age. 1730.
(By Young)]. [Supposed to be by Welsted, Leonard and Smythe, James
Moore. ]
The Grub-Street Journal. 1730-8.
A Collection of Pieces in verse and prose, which have been publish'd on
occasion of the Dunciad. By Mr Savage. 1732.
An Epistle from a Nobleman to a Doctor of Divinity: in answer to a Latin
Letter in verse. Written from H[ampto]n-C[our]t. 1733. [By John
lord Hervey. ]
Verses addressed to the imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of
Horace. By a Lady. [1733. By lady Mary Wortley Montagu,
assisted, probably, by lord Hervey. ]
(Mallet, David. ) Of Verbal Criticism. An Epistle to Mr Pope; occasioned
by Theobald's Shakespear and Bentley's Milton. 1733. [In verse. ]
Crousaz, J. P. de. Examen de l'Essai de M. Pope. 1737.
Commentaire sur la traduction de l'Essai de M. Pope. 1738.
Warburton replied in five letters (afterwards expanded to six) in the
Works of the Learned, 1738, 1739; collected in book form in 1740.
Another letter was afterwards added, and a rearrangement in four
letters published in 1742.
A Letter from Mr Cibber to Mr Pope, inquiring into the motives that might
induce him in his satyrical works, to be so frequently fond of Mr Cibber's
name. 1742.
Another occasional Letter from Mr Cibber to Mr Pope, Wherein the new
hero's preferment to his throne in the Dunciad seems not to be accepted.
1744.
IX. LATER CRITICISM
A. General
Abbott, Edwin. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Pope. With
an introduction. 1875. [The introduction deals with Pope's style and
metre. ]
Beljame, A. Le Public et les Hommes de Lettres en Angleterre au dix-
huitième siècle (1660-1744). Paris, 1881.
Coleridge, S. T. Biographia Literaria. 1817.
Conington, John. The Poetry of Pope. Oxford Essays. 1858. Rptd in
vol. 1 of his Miscellaneous Works, 1872.
Courthope, W. J. A History of English Poetry, vol. v. 1905.
Life in Poetry: Law in Taste, chap. viii. 1901.
De Quincey, Thomas. Pope. (In Encyclopaedia Britannica, ed. 7. ) The
Poetry of Pope. Lord Carlisle on Pope. All these are included
in De Quincey's collected works, ed. Masson, David, volg. iv and xi,
1888-90.
Deetz, Albrecht. Alexander Pope. Ein Beitrag zur Literaturgeschichte
des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts, nebst Proben Pope’scher Dichtungen.
Leipzig, 1876.
Dennis, J. Studies in English Literature. 1883.
The Age of Pope. 1906.
Verses upon the late D-ss of M_ By Mr P-1746. [A folio sheet
containing the character of Atossa, which had been included in Ep. 11 in
the edition of the Ethic Epistles left by Pope printed for publication.
This edn was suppressed by Bolingbroke's influence and the presentation
copies recalled with the exception, apparently, of one only, now in Brit.
Mus. This sheet, containing the character, was published, it would seem,
## p. 446 (#470) ############################################
446
Bibliography
by Bolingbroke or his agent (see Courthope's Life, p. 347) with an
injurious note mentioning that Pope received £1000 from the duchess to
suppress the lines. ]
IV. POETICAL TRANSLATIONS
The first book of Statius's Thebais. In Lintot's Miscellany. 1712.
Vertumnus and Pomona. From the fourteenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
In Lintot's Miscellany. 1712.
Sappho to Phaon. In Ovid's Epistles translated by several hands. 8th edn.
Tonson. 1712.
The Fable of Dryope. From the ninth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. In
the same.
January and May: or, the Merchant's Tale. From Chaucer. In Poetic
Miscellanies, the sixth part. Tonson. 1709.
The Wife of Bath, her Prologue. From Chaucer. In Poetical Miscellanies,
consisting of original poems and translations. By the best hands. Puh-
lish'd by Mr Steele. 1714.
The Temple of Fame: a vision. B. Lintot. 1715.
The Niad of Homer (published by Bernard Lintot). Vol. 1, 1715; vol. 11,
1716; vol. 111, 1717; vol. iv, 1718; vols. V and vi, 1720.
The episode of Sarpedon, from the twelfth and sixteenth books of
Homer's Iliad, appeared in Poetic Miscellanies, the sixth part. Tonson.
1709.
The Odyssey of Homer. Vols. 1-111, 1725; vols. IV, V, 1726.
A translation of the arrival of Ulysses in Ithaca from the 13th Odyssey
and of the garden of Alcinous from the 7th appeared in Steele's Miscellany.
1714.
The Satires of Dr John Donne, versified. Satire ii and Satire iv were
published in vol. II of Pope's Works, 1735.
The Impertinent, or A Visit to the Court. A Satire. By an Eminent
Hand [in great part the same as Satire iv of the above). 1733.
V. PROSE (including Letters)
The Works of Mr Alexander Pope in Prose. Vol. 1, 1737; vol. II,
1741.
The Guardian, No. 4, 16 March 1713 (Dedications). No. 11 (An elixir that
confers an agreeable madness). No. 40 (Pastorals). [Ironical comparison
between Ambrose Philips and Pope. ] No. 61 (Cruelty to Animals). [Leigh
Hunt has emphasised Pope's kindness for animals in his Imaginary
Conversations of Pope and Swift. ] Nos. 91 and 92 (The Club of little
men). No. 173, 29 Sept. 1713 (Gardens).
The Narrative of Dr Robert Norris, concerning the strange and deplorable
Frenzy of Mr J. Denn-an officer in the Custom-House. 1713.
A Key to the Lock; or a Treatise proving beyond all contradiction, the
dangerous tendency of a late poem intituled, the Rape of the Lock. . . by
Esdras Barnivelt. 1715.
A full and true Account of a horrid and barbarons Revenge by poison, on
the body of Mr Edmund Curll, Bookseller, with a faithful copy of his
last Will and Testament. 1716.
Three Hours after Marriage; a comedy. 1717. (Arbuthnot and Pope
assisted Gay in writing this. ]
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447
Miscellanies [by Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot and Gay]. Vols. I and 11, 1727;
vol. 111, 1728; vol. iv, 1732. [Contains verse as well as prose. ]
Familiar Letters written to Henry Cromwell, Esq. , by Mr Pope. In Curll's
Miscellanea, in two volumes. Never before published. 1727 (really 1726).
Letters of Mr Pope and several eminent persons. 2 vols. 1735.
See A Narrative of the method by which Mr Pope's private letters were
procured and published by Edmund Curll, bookseller, 1735.
Letters of Mr Alexander Pope, and several of his Friends. 1737. [The
acknowledged edition, printed for J. Knapton and others. ]
The Works of Mr Alexander Pope, in Prose. Vol. 11. 1741. [Printed for
Knapton and others. Contains, besides further letters, the Memoirs of
Scriblerus and other tracts written by Pope either singly or in conjunction
with his friends. ]
The Dublin editions of Letters to and from Dr J. Swift appear to have
been published after vol. II mentioned above.
A Collection of Letters, never before printed; written by Alexander Pope
and other ingenious gentlemen to the late Aaron Hill. 1751.
Supplemental Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope. 1825. [Containing
a considerable addition to his private correspondence. ]
The Works of Shakespear. . . collated and corrected by the former editions,
by Mr Pope. Tonson. 1725.
VI. ANNOTATED EDITIONS OF SEPARATE WORKS
Essay on Criticism. Ed. , with introduction and notes, West, A. S. Cambridge,
1896. Ed. , with introduction and notes, Collins, J. Churton. 1896. Ed. ,
with introduction and notes, Ryland, F. 1900.
Essay on Man. Ed. Pattison, Mark. Oxford, 1869. 2nd edn. 1872.
Satires and Epistles. Ed. Pattison, Mark. Oxford, 1872. 2nd edn. 1874.
The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. A new edition,
with additional notes, critical and illustrative, by Wakefield, Gilbert.
5 vols. 1806.
The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. A new
edition, etc. by Wakefield, Gilbert. 4 vols. 1806.
The Rape of the Lock. Ed. , with introduction and notes, Ryland, F. 1899.
The Rape of the Lock and other poems. Ed. , with introduction and
notes, Parrott, T. M. Boston (U. S. A. ), 1906. Illustrated edn by Beardsley,
Aubrey. 1896.
VII. BIOGRAPHY
The early lives of Pope, two anon. in 1744, those under the names of Ayre,
W. , 1745, Dilworth, W. H. , 1759, have no value. Owen Ruff head's, 1769, has
some unpublished letters and material supplied by Warburton.
Carruthers, R. The Life of Alexander Pope, including Extracts from his
Correspondence. . . Second edition. 1857.
Courthope, W. J.
The Life of Alexander Pope. 1889. Vol. v of Elwin
and Courthope's edition of Pope's Works.
Davies, Robert. Pope: Additional Facts concerning his Maternal Ancestry, .
1858.
Dilke, Charles Wentworth. The Papers of a Critic. Vol. I. 1875. [Papers
rptd from the Athenaeum and Notes and Queries in which D. had in-
vestigated various problems connected with the publication and arrange-
ment of Pope's correspondence, and the facts of his biography. ]
8
## p. 448 (#472) ############################################
448
Bibliography
:
Hunter, Joseph. Pope: His Descent and Family Connections. 1857. No. v
of Hunter's Critical and Historical Tracts. (See Dilke, C. W, in
Athenaeum, 21 Nov. 1857; Papers of a Critic, vol. 1, 234. ]
Johnson, Samuel. Prefaces, biographical and critical, to the Works of the
English Poets. 1779-81. See Hill, G. Birkbeck's edn of Johnson's
Lives, vol. 111, Oxford, 1905.
Paston, George (Symonds, Miss E. M. ). Mr Pope: his Life and Times.
2 vols. 1909. [Unpublished letters in the Mapledurham collection and
elsewhere are utilised in this work. ]
Richardson, Jonathan, the younger. Richardsoniana: or occasional reflec-
tions on the moral nature of man. . . with several anecdotes interspersed.
1776.
Spence, Joseph. Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and
Men. Collected from the Conversation of Mr Pope, and other Eminent
Persons of his time. Now first published. . . by Samuel Weller Singer.
1820. [The edn published on the same day by Murray with Malone's
notes is only a selection. ] Rptd 1858.
Stephen, Sir Leslie. Alexander Pope. English Men of Letters. 1880.
Pope Commemoration, 1888. Loan Museum Catalogue of the books, anto-
graphs, paintings and personal relics exhibited in the Town Hall,
Twickenham. Edited by Tedder, H. R. (with an introductory poem by
Dobson, Austin). (See sec. IX, post. ) 1888.
VIII. CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM, CONTROVERSY AND PERSONALITIES
Addison, Joseph. The Spectator, No. 253, 20 December 1711. (Notice of
An Essay on Criticism. )
Dennis, John. Reflections upon a late rhapsody called An Essay upon
Criticism. B. Lintot. [1711. ]
Homerides, or, a letter to Mr Pope occasion'd by his intended translation of
Homer by Sir Iliad Doggrel (Thomas Burnet). 1715.
Mist's Weekly Journal. 1716-28.
Dennis, John. A true character of Mr Pope. [1717. ]
Remarks upon Mr Pope's translation of Homer. With two letters
concerning Windsor Forest, and the Temple of Fame. 1717.
Spence, Joseph. An Essay on Pope's Odyssey : in which some particular
Beauties and Blemishes of that work are considered. London and
Oxford, 1726.
Spence's chief critical work, Polymetis: or an Enquiry concerning the
agreement between the Works of the Roman Poets and the Remains of
the Antient Artists, appeared in 1747. As to his Account of Stephen
Duck and other lesser publications, see Garnett, R. , art. Spence, in D. of
N. B. vol. LIII.
Theobald, Lewis. Shakespeare Restored: or, a Specimen of the many Errors,
as well committed, as unamended by Mr Pope, in his late Edition of this
Poet. . . . 1726.
Dennis, John. Remarks on Mr Pope's Rape of the Lock. 1728.
Gulliveriana: or, a fourth volume of miscellanies, being a sequel of the three
volumes published by Pope and Swift. To which is added, Alexanderiana;
or a comparison between the Ecclesiastical and Poetical Pope. 1728.
[By Jonathan Smedley, whose name was in consequence substituted in
1729 for Eusden's in Danciad, 11, 291. ]
Dennis, John. Remarks upon several passages in the preliminaries to the
Dunciad. . . 1729.
:
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:
449
One Epistle to Mr A. Pope, occasion'd by Two Epistles lately published [i. e.
Two Epistles to Mr Pope, Concerning the Authors of the Age. 1730.
(By Young)]. [Supposed to be by Welsted, Leonard and Smythe, James
Moore. ]
The Grub-Street Journal. 1730-8.
A Collection of Pieces in verse and prose, which have been publish'd on
occasion of the Dunciad. By Mr Savage. 1732.
An Epistle from a Nobleman to a Doctor of Divinity: in answer to a Latin
Letter in verse. Written from H[ampto]n-C[our]t. 1733. [By John
lord Hervey. ]
Verses addressed to the imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of
Horace. By a Lady. [1733. By lady Mary Wortley Montagu,
assisted, probably, by lord Hervey. ]
(Mallet, David. ) Of Verbal Criticism. An Epistle to Mr Pope; occasioned
by Theobald's Shakespear and Bentley's Milton. 1733. [In verse. ]
Crousaz, J. P. de. Examen de l'Essai de M. Pope. 1737.
Commentaire sur la traduction de l'Essai de M. Pope. 1738.
Warburton replied in five letters (afterwards expanded to six) in the
Works of the Learned, 1738, 1739; collected in book form in 1740.
Another letter was afterwards added, and a rearrangement in four
letters published in 1742.
A Letter from Mr Cibber to Mr Pope, inquiring into the motives that might
induce him in his satyrical works, to be so frequently fond of Mr Cibber's
name. 1742.
Another occasional Letter from Mr Cibber to Mr Pope, Wherein the new
hero's preferment to his throne in the Dunciad seems not to be accepted.
1744.
IX. LATER CRITICISM
A. General
Abbott, Edwin. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Pope. With
an introduction. 1875. [The introduction deals with Pope's style and
metre. ]
Beljame, A. Le Public et les Hommes de Lettres en Angleterre au dix-
huitième siècle (1660-1744). Paris, 1881.
Coleridge, S. T. Biographia Literaria. 1817.
Conington, John. The Poetry of Pope. Oxford Essays. 1858. Rptd in
vol. 1 of his Miscellaneous Works, 1872.
Courthope, W. J. A History of English Poetry, vol. v. 1905.
Life in Poetry: Law in Taste, chap. viii. 1901.
De Quincey, Thomas. Pope. (In Encyclopaedia Britannica, ed. 7. ) The
Poetry of Pope. Lord Carlisle on Pope. All these are included
in De Quincey's collected works, ed. Masson, David, volg. iv and xi,
1888-90.
Deetz, Albrecht. Alexander Pope. Ein Beitrag zur Literaturgeschichte
des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts, nebst Proben Pope’scher Dichtungen.
Leipzig, 1876.
Dennis, J. Studies in English Literature. 1883.
The Age of Pope. 1906.
