Author:Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope
(1688–1744)

Alexander Pope by Michael Dahl

Works

Unsorted

• Pastorals (1709)
• An Essay on Criticism (1711)
• The Rape of the Lock (1712 to 1717)
• Against Barbarity to Animals (1713)
• Windsor Forest (1713)
• Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato (1713)
• Imitation of Horace, Book II. Sat. 6 (1714)
• A Key to the Lock (1715)
• The Temple of Fame: A Vision (1715)
• The Works of Alexander Pope (1717) (transcription project)
• Eloisa to Abelard (1717)
• Verses to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (1717)
• Thoughts on Various Subjects (published in Swift's Miscellanies) (1727)
• The Dunciad (1728)
• Moral Essays (1731 to 1735)

• An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard, Earl of Burlington (1731), "Of False Taste" (transcription project)
• An Epistle to the Right Honourable Allen, Lord Bathurst (1733), "Of the Use of Riches" (transcription project)
• An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard, Lord Viscount Cobham (1733), "Of the Knowledge and Characters of Men" (transcription project)
• Of the Characters of Women: An Epistle to a Lady (1735), "Of the Characters of Women" (transcription project)

• Essay on Man (1734)
• Ode for Musick on St Cecilia's Day
• The Prologue to the Satires (see the Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot) (1735)
• Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace (1733 to 1738}
• One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight. A Dialogue Something Like Horace (1738)
• One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight. Dialogue II. (1738)
• Solitude
• An Epistle from Mr. Pope to Dr. Arbuthnot (1735) (transcription project)
• The Universal Prayer (1738)
• New Dunciad (1743)
• The Dying Christian to his Soul
• "Verbatim from Boileau" An argosy of fables, 1921.
• A Blind-Born's Song

Satires

• An Account of the Poisoning of Edmund Curll (1716)
• Farther Account of the Condition of Edmund Curll (1716)
• Narrative of the Frenzy of John Dennis (1713)
• Of the Circumcision of Edmund Curll (1716)
• Stradling Versus Stiles (c. 1727)
• Testimonies Respecting the Character of Dr. Swift

Poems

• Artemisia (c. 1710-1730)
• The Alley; an Imitation of Spencer (c. 1710-1730)
• The Balance of Europe (c. 1714)
• Epistle to Jervas (1716)
• Epigram - Bishop John Hough (c. 1717)
• Epigram from the French (c. 1710-1730)
• Epigram on Handel and Bononcini (c. 1720)
• Epigram on the Toasts of the Kit-Cat Club (1716)
• Epigrams on Francis Chartres, &c. (c. 1710-1730)
• Epitaph - He’ll Ne'er Come Back (c. 1710-1730)
• The Happy Life of a Country Parson (c. 1710-1730)
• Impromptu to Lady Winchelsea (c. 1714)
• The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch (c. 1726)
• Macer (1713)
• Mary Gulliver to Captain Lemuel Gulliver (c. 1726)
• Molly Mog (1726)
• On a Certain Lady at Court (c. 1710-1730)
• On Mrs. Tofts (c. 1710-1730)
• On the Countess of Burlington Cutting Paper (c. 1710-1730)
• Phryne (c. 1710-1730)
• Prologue Designed for Mr. D'Urfy's Last Play (c. 1710-1723)
• Prologue to Three Hours After Marriage (c. 1717)
• Sandys's Ghost (c. 1710-1730)
• A Tale of Chaucer (c. 1710-1730)
• To a Lady, with the Temple of Fame (c. 1710-1730)
• To Mr. John Moore, Author of the Celebrated Worm Powder (c. 1710-1730)
• To Mrs. Martha Blount, on Her Birthday (c. 1710-1730)
• To Quinbus Flestrin (c. 1726)
• Umbra (c. 1710-1730)
• One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty (unfinished)

Anthologized:

• "On Solitude" in Poems and Extracts by William Wordsworth (1905)

Letters to Jonathan Swift

• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 1 (December 8, 1713)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 1 (June 18, 1714)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 2 (June 20, 1716)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 3 (January 12, 1723)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 4 (September 14, 1725)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 5 (October 15, 1725)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 6 (December 10, 1725)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 7 (August 22, 1726)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 8 (September 3, 1726)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 9 (November 16, 1726)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 10 (March 8, 1727)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 11 (October 2, 1727)
• Letter From John Gay and Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 1 (October 22, 1727)
• Letter From Henry St John and Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 2 (c. 1727-1728)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 12 (March 23, 1728)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 13 (June 28, 1728)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 14 (November 12, 1728)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 15 (October 9, 1729)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 16 (November 28, 1729)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 17 (April 12, 1730)
• Letter From Henry St John and Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 5 (March 29, 1731)
• Letter From John Gay and Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 2 (December 1, 1731)
• Letter From Henry St John and Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 6 (c. 1731)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 18 (December 5, 1732) (Announces the death of John Gay)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 19 (February 16, 1733)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 20 (April 2, 1733)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 21 (May 28, 1733)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 22 (September 1, 1733)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 23 (January 6, 1734)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 24 (September 15, 1734)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 25 (December 19, 1734)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 26 (1735)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 27 (March 25, 1736)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 28 (August 17, 1736)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 29 (December 30, 1736)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 30 (March 23, 1737)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 2 (October 12, 1738)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift - 33 (May 17, 1739)

Letters to others

• Letter From Alexander Pope to Thomas Sheridan - 1 (September 6, 1727)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Thomas Sheridan - 2 (1728)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to John Boyle - 1 (1737)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to John Boyle - 2 (July 12, 1737)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to John Boyle - 3 (April 2, 1738)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to John Boyle - 4 (November 7, 1738)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Mr. Allen - 1 (c. 1739)
• Letter From Alexander Pope to Martha Whiteway - 1 (June 18, 1740)

Translations

• The Iliad of Homer (poetic interpretation) (1715 to 1720), by Homer
• The Odyssey of Homer (poetic interpretation) (1725), by Homer

Works about Pope

• "Pope" in The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1783), by Samuel Johnson, pp.1-225.
• Alexander Pope (1880), by Leslie Stephen
• "Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "The Genius of Pope", by Stephen Gwynn, in The Venture (1903)
• "Pope, Alexander," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Pope, Alexander," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Alexander Pope," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "Pope, Alexander," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)