Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry and Prose

25 From a letter to John Murray, 1821; see Bateson and
Joukovsky, pp. 203–4.
26 An adaptation of Pope’s lines on Timon in the ‘Epistle to
Burlington’ (107–8). The whole poem is printed in The
Critical Heritage, pp. 269–72.
27 From a letter to John Murray, 1821; see Bateson and
Joukovsky, pp. 207–8.
28 Johnson, Life, p. 228.
29 ibid., p. 225.
30 ibid., p. 225.
31 See the note on p. 303. Bentley had said of Pope’s Homer:
‘it is a pretty poem, Mr Pope, but you must not call it
Homer’.