Alexander Pope : the Critical Heritage
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ALEXANDER POPE THE CRITICAL HERITAGE
Copyright
General Editor's Preface
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
Note on the Text
Part I Contemporary Criticism 1705-44
General reactions 1705-20
I William Wycherley, April I705
2 (a) John Gay on Pope, May 1712
(b) Joseph Addison on Pope, October 1712
3 John Dennis, from A True Character of Mr. Pope, May 1716
4 Leonaed Welsted, from Palcemon to Ccelia, March 1717
5 Thomas Parnell, 'To Mr. Pope', I717
6 (a) Giles Jacob, from The Poetical Register, December 1718
(b) Dr Abel Evans, July 1719
Pastorals (1709)
7 Reactions 1705-9
(a) Lord Landowne, 1705 or 1706
(b) William Walsh, April 1705
(c) Jacob Tonson, April 1706
(d) William Walsh, September 1706
(e) William Wycherley, May 1709
8 William Wycherley's public acclamation, 1709
9 Alexander Pope, The Guardian, April 1713
An Essay on Criticism (1711)
10 John Dennis, from Reflections Critical and Satyrical, June 1711
11 Joseph Addison, from The Spectator, December 1711
12 Charles Gildon's first attack, December 1711
13 Aaron Hill, May 1738
14 Two contrasting views
(a) Sir Thomas Hanmer , 1736
(b) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, January-February 1741
Messiah (1712)
15 Sir Richard Steele, June 1712
Windsor Forest (1713)
16 John Dennis, December 1714
17 William Bond, from The Progress of Dulness, June 1720
The Rape of the Lock (1714)
18 (a) Sir William Trumbull, March 1714
(b) Rev. George Berkeley, May 1714
19 Charles Gildon, from A New Rehearsal April 1714
20 John Dennis, from Remarks on the Rape of the Lock, May 1714ff
21 William Bond, from The Progress of Dulness, June 1720
22 Matthew Concanen, from 'Of Modern Poetry', November 1725
23 P.-F. Guyot, 'Preface du Traducteur', 1728. 24 Two Italian assessments
(a) Andrea Bonducci, 1739
(b) Giuseppe Buondelmonti, 1739
Iliad (1715-20)
25 Richard Fiddes, from A Prefatory Epistle, 1714
26 Thomas Burnet and George Duckett, from Homerides, March 1715
27 (a) Anonymous, The Weekly Journal, June 1715
(b) Anonymous, The Weekly Journal, June 1715
28 The public takes sides, June 1715-March 1717
(a) Thomas Parnell, June 1715
(b) Jonathan Swift, June 1715
(c) Dr Erward Young, June 1715
(d) Rev. George Berleley, July 1715
(e) John Gay, July 1715
(f) Thomas Burnet, August 1715
(g) Joseph Addison, from The Freeholder, May 1716
(h) J.D. Breval ('Joseph Gay'), from The Confederates, March 1717
29 Lewis Theobald, from The Censor, January 1717
30 John Dennis, from Remarks on Mr. Pope's Homer, February 1717
31 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, September 1717
32 Anne Dacier, 'Reflexions sur la Preface de M. Pope', 1719
33 William Melmoth, October 1719
A Roman Catholick Version of the First Psalm (1716)
34 Sir Richard Blackmore, from Essays upon Several Subjects, 1717
Eloisa to Abelard (1717)
35 (a) Matthew Prior, from Alma, March 17
b) James Delacour, preface to Abelard to Eloisa, 173
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (1717)
36 Thomas Blacklock, C. 1742
Epitaph on John Hewet and Sarah Drew (1718)
37 (a) Bishop Atterbury, September 1718
(b) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, November 1718
General Reactions 1721-9
38 Matthew Concanen, from 'A Letter to a Critick', 1722
39 Viscount Bolingbroke, February 1724
40 Dr Erward Young, from The Universal Passion, Satire i, 1725
41 Walter Harte, from 'To Mr. Pope', 1727
42 Voltaire on Pope
(a) October 1726
(b) from Lettres philosophiques, June 1726-March 1729
43 (a) Mather Byles, October 1727
(b) Mather Byles, May 1728. 44 John Dennis , from The Daily Journal, May 1728
45 Matthew Concanen, from A Supplement to the Profound, August 1728
46 Pope's superiority
(a) Richard Savage, from The Wanderer, 1729
(b) Bishop Atterbury, November 1729
Odyssey (1725-6)
47 'Homerides', from The London Journal, July 1725
48 Daniel Defoe, 'On Pope's Translation of Homer', July 1725
49 Joseph Spence, from An Essay on Popes Odyssey, part i, June 1726
50 Joseph Spence, from An Essay on Pope's Odyssey, part ii, August 1727
51 Matthew Concanen, from Preface, A Supplement to the Profound, August 1728
The Dunciad (1728)
52 W.A., from Mist's Weekly Journal, May 1728
53 Anonymous, from An Essay on the Dunciad, June 1728
54 Jonathan Swift, July 1728
The Dunciad Variorum (1729)
55 Anonymous, from Pope Alexander's Supremacy Examin'd, May 1729
56 John Dennis, from Remarks upon the Dunciad, July 1729
57 Bishop Atterbury, August 1729
58 Giles Jacob, December 1729
59 Walter Harte, from An Essay upon Satire, January 1731
60 Henry Fielding, from The Champion, November 1739
General reactions 1730-44
61 Samuel Richardson, conversation, c. 1730-4
62 Lord Lyttelton, An Epistle to Mr. Pope, June 1730
63 'Chevalier' Andrew Ramsay, 1733
64 Anonymous, from The Satirist, June 1733
65 Anonymous, from The Poet finish'd in Prose, June 1735
66 Anonymous poem from The Prompter, November 1735
67 Thomas Dale, from An Epistle ... from South Carolina, 1737
68 (a) Dr Isaac Watts, June 1738
(b) Countess of Hertford, August 1738
(c) Countess of Hertford, May 1739
69 Henry Brooke, November 1739
70 Dr Isaac Watts, from The Improvement of the Mind, 1741
71 Lord Hervey, from A Letter to Mr. C-b-r, August 1742
72 Anonymous, from Sawney and Colley, 1742
'Ethick Epistles' (1729-36). 73 (a) Viscount Bolingbroke, June-July 1734
(b) Jonathan Swift, December 1736
Moral Essays IV: Epistle to Burlington (1731)
74 Duke of Chandos, December 1731
75 Leonard Welsted, from Of Dulness and Scandal, January 1732
Moral Essays III: Epistle to Bathurst (1733)
76 Jonathan Swift, January 1733
Imitations of Horace, Satires II. i (1733)
77 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Verse Address'd to the Imitator, March 1733
78 Anonymous, from An Epistle to the Little Satyrist of Twickenham, March 1733
An Essay on Man (1733)
79 Pope describes the poem's reception, March 1733
80 Initial reactions, 1733-4
(a) Leonard Welsted, March 1733
(b) Dr Alured Clarke, April 1733
(c) A.Z. from The Gentleman's Magazine, February 1734
(d) I.C. from The Gentleman's Magazine, February 1734
(e) Robert Dodsley, from An Epistle to Mr. Pope, November 1734
(f) Jonathan Swift, November 1734
81 Mr Bridges from Divine Wisdom, March 1736
82 Abbé Du Resnel, 'Discours préliminaire', 1736
83 J.P. De Crousaz, from Examen de l'essai sur l'homme, 1737
84 William Warburton replies, December 1738-April 1739
85 Lord Hervey, from A Letter to Mr. C-b-r, August 1742
Epitaph on Mr. Gay (1733)
86 Jonathan Swift, March 1733
Imitations of Horace: Sober Advice from Horace (1734)
87 Thomas Bentley, from A Letter to Mr. Pope, March 1735
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (1735)
88 (a) Elizabeth Rowe, 1734-5
(b) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, January 1735
(c) Colley Cibber, from A Letter from Mr. Gibber, 1742
Epilogue to the Satires: Dialogue II (1738)
89 (a) Aaron Hill, July 1738
(b) Jonathan Swift, August 1738
The New Dunciad (1742)
90 (a) William Shenstone, March 1742
(b) Thomas Gray, April 1742
91 Colley Cibber, from A Letter from Mr. Cibber, July 1742
92 Henry Fielding, from The Champion, August 1742. 93 Samuel Richardson, January 1743
The Dunciad in Four Books (1743)
94 John Henley, from Why How now, Gossip Pope?, 1743
95 Samuel Richardson, January 1744
A final tribute
96 Anonymous, An Elegy on Mr. Pope, June 1744
Part II Later Criticism 1745-82
97 William Ayre, from Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq., 1745
98 Thomas Gray, February 1746
99 Samuel Johnson, from The Rambler, February 1751
100 William Warburton, from The Works of Alexander Pope, 1751
101 Catherine Talbot, August 1751
102 William Cowper on Pope's Homer, c. 1753-7
103 De Lustrac on the Pastorals, April 1753
104 Robert Shiels, from Cibber's Lives of the Poets, February 1753
105 Joseph Warton, from The Adventurer, June 1753
106 Joseph Warton, from An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, vol. i, 1756
107 Samuel Johnson reviews Warton, 1756
108 Samuel Johnson, from 'A Dissertation upon the Epitaphs of Pope', May 1756
109 Voltaire, passage added to Lettres Philosophiques, 1756
110 Samuel Richardson, 1757
111 W.H. Dilworth, from The Life of Alexander Pope, 1759
112 Dr Edward Young, from Conjectures on Original Composition, 1759
113 Conte F. Algarotti, October 1759
114 Samuel Johnson, from The Idler, October 1759
115 Lord Lyttelton, from Dialogues of the Dead, 1760
116 Dr Hugh Blair, from Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, delivered c. 1762
117 Lord Kames, from Elements of Criticism, March 1762
118 Arthur Murphy, from The Works of Henry Fielding, 1762
119 Palissot De Montenoy on The Dunciad, 1764
120 (a) Oliver Goldsmith, from An History of England, 1764
(b) Oliver Goldsmith, from The Beauties of English Poesy, April 1767
121 Owen Ruffhead, from The Life of Alexander Pope, 1769
122 Samuel Johnson reviews Ruffhead, 1769
123 Thomas Warton, from A History of English Poetry, 1774