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Alexander Pope

Male : Poet & Satirist. Lame from birth. Roman Catholic (this prevented education at any high level and thus he was largely self-educated) & Tory. Translating Homer and Editing editions of Shakespeare gave him a very modest income. Settled in Twickenham in 1718
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Lombard Street, London

Date of Birth : 1688 Date of Death : 1744 Age : 56

Education : Twyford
1711-1715
An Essay on Criticism
(1711 Lewis) (1716 Lewis & Lintot)
(1719 Lintot, London. 6th Ed)
The Critical Specimen
(1711)
The Rape of the Locke : An Heroi-Comical Poem
(1712)
(1714 Lintot. 2nd Ed)
The Narrative of Dr Robert Norris
(1713)
Windsor Forest
(1713 Lintot)
Ode to St Cecilia's Day
(1713 Lintot)
(Ed) Miscellaneous Poems and Translations by Various Hands (1714)
A Key to the Lock
(1715 Lintot)
The Dignity, Use and Abuse of Glass-Bottles
(1715)
The Temple of Fame : A Vision
(1715 Lintot)
(Trans) The Iliad of Homer (1715-20 Lintot. Each vol 1 guinea) - 6 vols

1716-1720
To the Ingenious Mr Moore, Author of the Celebrated Worm-Powder
(1716)
Court Poems
(1716 James Roberts)
A Full and True Account of a Horrid and Barbarous Revenge by Poison on the Body of Mr Edmund
Curll, Bookseller
(1716) - [A Further Account appeared the same year]
A Roman Catholic Version of the First Psalm
(1716)
God's Revenge Against Punning
(1716)
The Court Ballad
(1717)
(Ed) Poems on Several Occasions (1717)
Three Hours After Marriage
(1717) - Play with Arbuthnot & Gay
The Plot Discovered, or a Clue to the Comedy of the Non-Juror
(1718)
Ode for Music on St Cecilia's Day
(1719 Lintot, London. 3rd Ed)
Duke Upon Duke
(1720)
[Up to 1721 Bernard Lintot paid Pope some £4244 for his various works]

1721-1730
(Ed) Thomas Parnell : Poems on Various Occasions (1722)
(Ed) The Works of John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham (1723) - 2 vols
(Ed) The Works of Shakespeare (1725 Tonson) - 6 vols. 750 copies
(Trans) The Odyssey of Homer (1725-6) - 5 vols
A Receipt to Make a Soup
(1727)
The Discovery
(1727)
The Dunciad : An Heroic Poem in Three Books
(1728)
The Dunciad, with Notes Variorum and the Prolegomena of Scriblerus
(1729 Lawton Gilliver, London)

1731-1735
An Epistle to Richard, Earl of Burlington
(1731)
Esther : An Oratorio
(1732) - with Arbuthnot & Samuel Humphreys, Music by Handel
Of the Use of Riches : An Epistle to Bathurst
(1732 J Wright for Lawton Gilliver)
The Impertinent
(1733)
An Epistle to the Rt Hon Richard Lord Visct. Cobham of the Knowledge & Characters of Men
(1733 for L Gilliver)
The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated
(1733 A Dodd & E Nutt) (1737 Dodsley)
Sober Advice from Horace
(1734)
An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
(1734)
An Essay on Man, being the 1st Book of Ethic Epistles
(1734 John Wright, London)
Letters to Mr Pope and Several Eminent Persons
(1735)
(1735-7. Revised Edition) - 5 vols
Of the Characters of Women : An Epistle to a Lady
(1735 J Wright for Lawton Gilliver)

1736-1740
Bounce to Fop
(1736)
Horace His Ode to Venus, lib, iv, Ode, i, Imitated
(1737)
The Second Book of the Epistles of Hrace, Imitated : Two Poems
(1737)
The Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace, Imitated
(1738)
An Imitation of the Sixth Satire of the Second Book of Horace
(1738)
[By Jonathan swift, completed by Pope]
The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated
(1738)
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight : A Dialogue
(1738 T Cooper)
The Universal Prayer
(1738 Dodsley) - Anon
Epistles of Horace Imitated
(1738)

1741-1760
A Blast upon Bays, or A New Lick at the Laureate
(1742)
The New Dunciad as it was found in the Year 1741
(1742 for F Cooper, London)
The Dunciad in Four Books
(1743)

1761-1800
The Iliad of Homer : New Edition
(1761 ptd by Hamilton, Balfour & Neil, Edinburgh)
An Essay on Man
(1771 Dublin. New ed) (1786 Strahan, Cadell. Rev Ed)
Additions to the Works of Alexander Pope, together with many Original Poems & Letters
(1776 for H Baldwin, London) - 2 vols
The Rape of the Lock
(1798 Bensley, London)

1801-1900
The Rape of the Lock
(1801 Bulmer for Du Roveray, London)
An Essay on Man .. with the Life of the Author
(1815 Thos Tegg, London)
An Essay on Man & Other Poems
(1822 Chiswick Press, Whittingham)
The Rape of the Lock
(1896 Leonard Smithers) - 1000. Aubrey Beardsley
Offered in 1991 for £480

20thC
The Rape of the Lock
(1902 Elston Press, NY) - 160
Of the Characters of Women
(1924 OUP) - 550
The Rape of the Lock
(1925 Chiswick Press for F Etchells & H Macdonald) - 725
Pope's Own Miscellany
(1935 Nonesuch Press) - 750
The Rape of the Lock
(1944 Leonard Jay, Birmingham) - 65
An Essay on Man
(Repro of the MSS in the Pierpont Morgan Library & the Houghton Library)
(1962 Roxburghe Club, Oxford)
The Last & Greatest Art : Some Unpublished Poetical MSS of Alexander Pope
(1984 Delaware UP)

The Poetical Works
(1773 Robert & Andrew Foulis, Glasgow) - 4 vols
(1785 Foulis, Glasgow) - 3 vols
Offered in 1998 for £810
(1807 W Suttaby)
(1831 Wm Pickering) - 3 vols
(1852 Wm Pickering, Aldine Poets)
(1883 Bell. Rev Ed) - 2 vols. Edited by Robert Carruthers
(1939-67) - 10 vols. Edited by John Butt et al
Oxford Standard Authors
(1966 OUP) - Edited by Herbert Davis

The Works
(1717-41 London) - 4 vols
Miscellanies in Prose & Verse
(1727-32) - 4 vols. et al
(1736-41) - 7 vols
Works in Prose
(1737-41) - 2 vols
(1751) - 9 vols. Edited by William Warburton
(1753 Knapton, London) - 9 vols
(1756 for H Lintot, London) - 9 vols
(1757 London) - 10 vols
(1764 Hill, Tonson, Lintot & Bathurst, London) - 12 vols
Offered in 1999 for £650
(1767 A Donaldson, Edinburgh) - 6 vols
(1770 for C Bathurst, London) - 9 vols
(1788 for C Bathurst, London) - 6 vols
(1797) - 9 vols. edited by Joseph Warton
(1812 Nichols and Son, London) - 8 vols
With Notes & Illustrations
(1847 Longman, Brown) - 8 vols
Offered in 1998 for £280
(1871-89 Murray. New Ed) - 10 vols. Edited by W Elwin & W J Courthope

READING
William Ayre : Memoirs of the Life & Writings of Alexander Pope
(1745) - 2 vols
Owen Ruffhead : The Life of Alexander Pope
(1769 for C Bathurst, London)
E A Abbott : A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Pope
(1875)
Leslie Stephen : Alexander Pope
(1880 Men of Letters Series)
Reginald Harvey Griffith : Alexander Pope : A Bibliography
(1922-7 Texas UP) - 2 vols
Edith Sitwell : Alexander Pope
(1930)
George Sherburn : The Early Career of Alexander Pope
(1934)
T E Tobin : Alexander Pope - A List of Critical Studies 1895-1944
(1945)
Norman Ault : New Light on Pope with some Additions to His Poetry Hitherto unknown
(1949)
Bonamy Dobree : Alexander Pope
(1951)
Reginald Harvey Griffith : Alexander Pope : A Bibliography
(1962 Holland Press, London) - 2 vols
J V Gerinot : Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744 - A Descriptive Bibliography
(1969 London)
Robert Halsband : The Rape of the Lock and Its Illustrations 1714-1896
(1980 Oxford)
Laura Brown : Alexander Pope
(1984 Basil Blackwell £12.50)
Maynard Mack : Alexander Pope
(1985 New Haven)
Christa Knellwolf : A Contradiction Still - Representations of Women
in the Poetry of Alexander Pope
(1998 Manchester)

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See also

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
William Lisle Bowles
Everyman Series 501-1000
William Shakespeare
Dame Edith Sitwell