ESS A Y ΟΝ THE GENIUS AND WRITINGS O F POPE. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. DODSLEY, IN PALL-MALL. Of JANUARY and MAY, The WIFE of BATH, and TRANSLATIONS of STATIUS and OVID, and the IMITATIONS of fome ENGLISH POETS. T HE first dawnings of polite lite rature in Italy, appeared in talewriting and fables. Boccace gave a currency and vogue to this fpecies of compofition. He collected many of the common tales of his country, and delivered them in VOL. II. B the |