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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with his last corrections, additions, and improvements. / From the text of Dr. Warburton. With the life of the author.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
- Series:
- Bell's edition. The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill .. ; v.76-79
- Bell's edition. The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill .. ; [v.76-79]
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Penn Provenance:
- Smith, R.W. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 4 volumes : frontispiece (portrait) ; 13 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed under the direction of J. Bell, 1787-88.
- Contents:
- v. 1. The life [of] Mr. Alexander Pope [from Cibber's "Lives of the poets"] Pastorals. Messiah, a sacred eclogue, in imitation of Virgil's Pollio. Windsor forest. Rape of the lock. Sappho to Phaon. Eloisa to Abelard. Temple of fame. January and May, from Chaucer, &c.
- v. 2. An essay on satire, occasioned by the death of Mr. Pope; Inscribed to Mr. Warburton. By J. Brown. Essay on man. Essay on criticism. Moral essays. Wife of Bath. Statius' Thebias, book first [translation]
- v. 3. The fable of Dryope: From the ninth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Vertumnus and Pomona: From the fourteenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Imitations of English poets. Horace's Satires, epistles, and odes. Imitated. Satires of Dr. John Donne versified. Epistles. Miscellanies. Epitaphs.
- v. 4. Advertisements. Prefaces. Letters. Parallels. The Duncaid. Index of persons and matters.
- Notes:
- Added t.p., engraved, with vignettes from designs by Mortimer, dated 1777-78. Each volume has also special t.-p.
- The Latin text accompanies the translations and imitations and the original text accompanies the versification of the satires of Dr. John Donne (v. 3, p. [168]-195)
- OCLC:
- 13604923
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