Goldgar, Bertrand A. (ed.) (1965) Literary Criticism of
Alexander Pope, Lincoln, Nebr.: University of Nebraska
Press. A useful collection of Pope’s own pronouncements
under the headings ‘general theory’, ‘pastoral’, ‘epic’,
‘drama’.
Hammond, Paul (1987) Selected Prose of Alexander Pope,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The critical prose
and a selection of letters in one volume.
Mack, Maynard (ed.) (1969) The Twickenham Edition of the
Poems of Alexander Pope, volume XI, general editor John
Butt, in ten volumes (1938–1968) London and New
Haven: Methuen; with index (volume XI, 1969). Contains
bibliographical information, introductory material, and
commentary upon the poems.
Rosslyn, Felicity (ed.) (1985) Pope’s Iliad. A Selection with
Commentary, Bristol: Bristol Classical Press. This
affordable paperback includes a generous selection of
Pope’s own notes accompanying the text.
CRITICISMAmarasinghe, Upali (1962) Dryden and Pope in the Early
Nineteenth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. A study of the complexities of the Romantic reaction
to the Augustans and the controversy over Pope’s poems
that engaged the leading figures of the time.
Barnard, John (ed.) (1973) Pope: The Critical Heritage,
London and Boston, Mass.: Routledge & Kegan Paul;
paperback, 1985). A most useful selection of texts detailing
the critical response to the poems during Pope’s life-time
and thereafter throughout the eighteenth century.
Bateson, F.W. and Joukovsky, N.A. (eds) (1971) Alexander
Pope: A Critical Anthology, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Another most useful anthology of extracts from critical
texts divided into three sections, the first part representing
contemporaneous criticism and the eighteenth century, the
second the continuing debate in the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, and the third modern views including
those of Empson, Leavis, and the American New Critics.
Brower, Reuben A. (1959) Alexander Pope: The Poetry of