Poetical Works of Pope, Volume Ii

By Pope, Alexander

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Title:	Poetical Works of Pope, Volume Ii
Author:	Pope, Alexander
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


Citation APA MLA Chicago Alexander, 1688-174, B. P. (n.d.). Poetical Works of Pope, Volume Ii. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

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Excerpt: THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE. Few poets during their lifetime have been at once so much admired and so much abused as Pope. Some writers, destined to oblivion in after?ages, have been loaded with laurels in their own time; while others, on whom Fame was one day to ?wait like a menial,? have gone to the grave neglected, if not decried and depreciated. But it was the fate of Pope to combine in his single experience the extremes of detraction and flattery?to have the sunshine of applause and the hail?storm of calumny mingled on his living head; while over his dead body, as over the body of Patroclus, there has raged a critical controversy, involving not merely his character as a man, but his claims as a poet. For this, unquestionably, there are some subordinate reasons. Pope?s religious creed, his political connexions, his easy circumstances, his popularity with the upper classes, as well as his testy temper and malicious disposition, all tended to rouse against him, while he lived, a personal as well as public hostility, altogether irrespective of the mere merit or demerit of his poetry. ?We cannot bear a Papist to be our principal bard,? said one class. ?No Tory for our translator of Homer,? cried the zealous Whigs, ?Poets should be poor, and Pope is independent,? growled Grub Street. The ancients could not endure that a ?poet should build an house, but this varlet has dug a grotto, and established a clandestine connexion between Parnassus and the Temple of Plutus.? ?Pope,? said others, ?is hand?in?glove with Lords Oxford and Bolingbroke, and it was never so seen before in any genuine child of genius.? ?He is a little ugly insect,? cried another class; ?can such a misbegotten brat be a favourite with the beautiful Apollo??

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Poetical Works of Pope, Vol. II, 1 -- Alexander Pope, 1 -- THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE, 4 -- MORAL ESSAYS, 19 -- EPISTLE II.?TO A LADY, 29 -- TRANSLATIONS AND IMITATIONS, 59 -- SAPPHO TO PHAON, 59 -- THE FABLE OF DRYOPE.[56], 65 -- VERTUMNUS AND POMONA, 67 -- THE FIRST BOOK OF STATIUS'S THEBAIS, 70 -- THE WIFE OF BATH, HER PROLOGUE, 112 -- PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUES, 123 -- A PROLOGUE. TO A PLAY FOR MR DENNIS'S BENEFIT, IN 1733, WHEN HE WAS -- OLD, BLIND, AND IN GREAT DISTRESS, A LITTLE BEFORE HIS DEATH, 123 -- PROLOGUE TO MR ADDISON'S 'CATO.', 123 -- PROLOGUE TO THOMSON'S 'SOPHONISBA.'[59], 125 -- PROLOGUE, DESIGNED FOR MR D'URFEY'S LAST PLAY, 125 -- PROLOGUE TO 'THE THREE HOURS AFTER MARRIAGE', 126 -- EPILOGUE TO MR ROWE'S 'JANE SHORE.', 127 -- MISCELLANIES, 129 -- THE BASSET?TABLE.[62], 129 -- LINES, 134 -- VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU, 136 -- ANSWER TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION OF MRS HOWE, 136 -- OCCASIONED BY SOME VERSES OF HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, 137 -- MACER: A CHARACTER, 137 -- SONG, BY A PERSON OF QUALITY, WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1733, 138 -- ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT, 139 -- ON HIS GROTTO AT TWICKENHAM, COMPOSED OF MARBLES, SPARS, GEMS, -- ORES, AND MINERALS, 140 -- ROXANA, OR THE DRAWING?ROOM, 141 -- TO LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE, 142 -- EXTEMPORANEOUS LINES, 143 -- LINES SUNG BY DURASTANTI, 143 -- UPON THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH'S HOUSE AT WOODSTOCK, 144 -- VERSES LEFT BY MR POPE, 144 -- THE CHALLENGE, A COURT BALLAD, 145 -- THE THREE GENTLE SHEPHERDS, 147 -- EPIGRAM, 147 -- THE TRANSLATOR, 147 -- THE LOOKING?GLASS, 148 -- A FAREWELL TO LONDON, 148 -- SANDYS' GHOST;[82], 150 -- UMBRA.[85], 153 -- SYLVIA, A FRAGMENT, 153 -- IMPROMPTU TO LADY WINCHELSEA, 154 -- EPIGRAM, 154 -- EPIGRAM ON THE FEUDS ABOUT HANDEL AND BONONCINI, 154 -- Poetical Works of Pope, Vol. II -- i