Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry and Prose

recognize the greatest poetic talent. Dryden had money difficulties for much of his life. At his death Halifax proposed to erect ...

363 Japhet Japhet Crook, a forger convicted in 1731. He was jailed and had his ears cut off. 365 Knight of the post one who live ...

4 Chartres the notorious rake mentioned in the ‘Epistle to a lady’ (line 64). 6 Lord Fanny Lord Hervey. 8 Counsel Fortescue was ...

Montaigne the French essayist (1553–92) noted like Horace for candour and self-revelation. 66 Erasmus See note to An Essay on Cr ...

disliked poetry), bishops might write if they were honest and active in the campaign against vice, and Sir Robert would approve ...

83 quill the pen of a city clerk. 84 notches sticks refers to the method of notching tally sticks still used in the treasury and ...

Merlin is the wizard at the court of King Arthur. 155 news newspaper. 156 japanner shoe polisher. 158 chaise and one a light car ...

Shakespeare Restored: or a Specimen of the Many Errors as well Committed as Unamended by Mr Pope in his late Edition of this Poe ...

2 Smithfield ‘Smithfield is the place where Bartholomew Fair was kept, whose shows, machines and dramatical entertainments forme ...

less customary to print elegies on their deaths at the same time or before’ (1729). 32 merc’ries mercuries (Mercury was the mess ...

attributed to Dutch women; applied to a literary composition, of a supplementary or imperfect character’ (OED). 100 Settle, Bank ...

5 bags bag wigs in which the hair was enclosed as in an ornamental bag. 6 crape less expensive than silk. garters suggesting kni ...

consider that the exercises of his authors could with justice be no higher than tickling, chattering, braying, or diving, it was ...

gold (the aspiration of the poets) in which mercenary values are supreme. A couplet of pregnant wit. 18 all below revealed Compa ...

around the manuscript text of an author, hence an annotator. 98 Horace Bentley’s edition of Horace was published in 1711 and his ...