Author:Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

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Alexander Pope

Works

• Pastorals (1709)
• An Essay on Criticism (1711)
• The Rape of the Lock (1712 to 1717)
• Windsor Forest (1713)
• Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato (1713)
• Eloisa to Abelard (1717)
• Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (1717)
• The Iliad of Homer (poetic interpretation) (1715 to 1720)
• The Odyssey of Homer (poetic interpretation) (1725)
• Thoughts on Various Subjects (published in Swift's Miscellanies) (1727)
• The Dunciad (1728)
• Moral Essays (1731 to 1735)
• Essay on Man (1734)
• Ode on St Cecilia's Day
• The Prologue to the Satires (see the Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot) (1735)
• Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace (1733 to 1738)
• Solitude
• The Universal Prayer (1738)
• New Dunciad (1743)
• The Dying Christian to his Soul

• "Verbatim from Boileau" An argosy of fables, 1921.

Works about Pope

• “Pope, Alexander” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Alexander Pope,” in Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913.
• “Pope, Alexander (1688-1744),” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885-1900) in 63 vols.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.