Foreword -- Ode on Solitude -- A Paraphrase on Thomas a Kempis -- IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS -- Spenser: The Alley -- Earl of Dorset: Artemisia -- Earl of Dorset: Phryne -- AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM -- The Balance of Europe -- WINDSOR-FOREST -- Prologue to Mr. Addison's Tragedy of Cato -- On a Lady who P -- st at the Tragedy of Cato -- Two or Three, or a Receipt to make a Cuckold -- THE RAPE OF THE LOCK,A HEROI-COMICAL POEM -- Epistle to Miss Blount on her leaving the Town after the Coronation -- A Farewell to London in the Year 1715 -- ELOISA TO ABELARD -- Answer to the following Question of Mrs. Howe -- To Mr. Gay -- Mary Gulliver to Capt. Lemuel Gulliver -- THE DUNCIAD(Text of First Edition, 1728) -- Intended for Sir Isaac Newton, In Westminster-Abbey -- On Dr. Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester,who died in Exile at Paris, 1732 -- Epitaph (of By-Words) -- On Mr Gay in Westminster-Abbey, 1732 -- 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 -- THE FIRST SATIRE OF THE SECOND BOOK OF HORACE IMITATED -- AN ESSAY ON MAN -- Epistle I -- Epistle II -- EPISTLES TO SEVERAL PERSONS -- Epistle I: To Sir Richard Temple, Lord Cobham -- Epistle II: To a Lady -- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot -- [Two Epitaphs on Himself ] -- For One who would not be buried in Westminster-Abbey -- Another, on the same -- On his Grotto at Twickenham -- Verbatim from Boileau -- To Mr. Thomas Southern,on his Birth-day, 1742 -- Fragment of Brutus, an Epic.
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"A selection of the greatest works of the eighteenth-century English poet Alexander Pope, selected by Claude Rawson"-- Provided by publisher.
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