Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry and Prose

3 ibid., p. 407.
4 ibid., p. 520. The selection from volume two covers pp.
508–20. The comment on An Essay on Man cited above
comes at p. 513.
5 Johnson, Life of Gray, Everyman edition, vol. 2, pp. 390–1.
6 The Critical Heritage, p. 399.
7 ‘Dryden and Pope are not classics of our poetry, they are
classics of our prose’, from his introduction to The English
Poets, edited by T.H.Ward (1880), in Alexander Pope: A
Critical Anthology, edited by F.W.Bateson and N.A.
Joukovsky, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971, pp. 249–52.
8 Johnson on Pope’s intellectual character, Life, p. 211.
9 ibid., p. 228.
10 ibid., p. 230.
11 Johnson on Pope’s Homer, Life, pp. 156–76, pp. 222–5.
The quotations are on p. 161 and p. 222.
12 On pp. 108–9. See Johnson, Life, pp. 166–7.
13 The Iliad of Homer, translated by Richmond Lattimore,
London: University of Chicago Press, 1951.
14 Pope’s notes, printed below the translation, are to be
found in the Twickenham edition of Pope, volumes VII–X.
15 In his preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800).
16 Johnson, Life, p. 212.
17 From a letter to Leigh Hunt of 1815, cited in Upali
Amarasinghe, Dryden and Pope in the Early Nineteenth
Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962,
pp. 206–7. See also pp. 104–5 for the verdicts of Southey
and Wordsworth, and Bateson and Joukovsky, p. 189, for
the verdict of Coleridge.
18 Twickenham edition of Pope, vol. VII, p. 18.
19 From the preface to his translation of the second book of
Virgil’s Aeneid: The Destruction of Troy (1656).
20 Johnson, Life, p. 229.
21 ibid., pp. 223–4.
22 The Critical Heritage, pp. 185–8.
23 Charles Cotton, Scarronides, or Virgil Travestie (1664).
24 Pope’s own phrase in a letter to Swift, 28 November 1729;
see The Correspondence of Alexander Pope, edited by
George Sherburn, in five volumes, Oxford: Clarendon
Press, vol. 3, p. 81.