Alexander Pope: The Critical Heritage (The Collected Critical Heritage : the Restoration and the Augustans)

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 7
CONTENTS......Page 8
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 18
PREFACE......Page 19
I......Page 21
II......Page 24
III  EARLY CAREER (1705–20)......Page 26
Early poems......Page 27
The Iliad......Page 30
IV  CONSOLIDATION AND COUNTER-OFFENSIVE (1721–9)......Page 31
The Odyssey......Page 32
The Dunciad (1728) and the nature of satire......Page 33
V  LATER CAREER (1730–44)......Page 35
Moral Essays and Imitations of Horace (1731–8)......Page 36
An Essay on Man (1733)......Page 37
The Dunciad (1742, 1743)......Page 38
VI  CRITICISM OF POPE (1745–82)......Page 39
VII  FOREIGN REPUTATION......Page 45
VIII......Page 46
NOTES......Page 49
NOTE ON THE TEXT......Page 53
PART I  CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM......Page 54
GENERAL REACTIONS......Page 55
1.  Wycherley welcomes the young poet......Page 56
2.  Opinions of Gay and Addison......Page 57
3.  John Dennis’s ‘Character’ of Pope......Page 58
4.  Welsted on Pope’s ‘vulgar art’......Page 66
5.  Parnell assesses Pope’s early career......Page 67
6.  Two assessments......Page 70
PASTORALS......Page 72
7.  Reactions 1705–9......Page 73
8.  Wycherley’s public acclamation......Page 75
9.  Pope compares himself with Philips......Page 77
AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM......Page 84
10.  Dennis’s first attack on Pope......Page 85
11.  Addison on An Essay on Criticism......Page 91
12.  Gildon’s first attack on Pope......Page 95
13.  Aaron Hill ‘improves’ An Essay on Criticism......Page 97
14.  Two contrasting views......Page 100
MESSIAH, A SACRED ECLOGUE......Page 101
15.  Steele’s comments......Page 102
WINDSOR FOREST......Page 103
16.  Dennis’s opinion......Page 104
17.  Another comparison with Cooper’s Hill......Page 106
THE RAPE OF THE LOCK......Page 108
18.  Trumbull’s and Berkeley’s immediate response......Page 109
19.  ‘Bawdy’ in The Rape of the Lock......Page 110
20.  Dennis’s opinion......Page 113
21.  William Bond’s opinion......Page 123
22.  Concanen’s praise......Page 125
23.  A French assessment......Page 126
24.  Two Italian assessments......Page 128
ILIAD......Page 130
25.  Preliminary praise......Page 131
26.  Preliminary Censure from ‘Sir Iliad Doggrel’......Page 132
27.  The battle between Pope and Tickell begins......Page 134
28.  The public takes sides......Page 136
29.  Theobald praises the Iliad......Page 140
30.  ‘Sir Tremendous Longinus’ replies......Page 142
31.  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s praise......Page 147
32.  An eminent French scholar attacks Pope’s view of Homer......Page 148
33.  William Melmoth’s opinion......Page 153
A ROMAN CATHOLICK VERSION OF THE FIRST PSALM......Page 157
34.  Blackmore on Pope’s profane obscenity......Page 158
ELOISA TO ABELARD......Page 159
35.  Matthew Prior’s and James Delacour’s praise......Page 160
ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY......Page 162
36.  Blacklock is ‘thrown into Agitation’......Page 163
EPITAPH ON JOHN HEWET AND SARAH DREW IN THE CHURCH-YARD AT STANTON HARCOURT......Page 164
37.  Reactions of Atterbury and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu......Page 165
GENERAL REACTIONS......Page 168
38.  Concanen praises Pope with Eusden......Page 169
39.  Bolingbroke gives advice......Page 170
40.  Young urges Pope to satire......Page 172
41.  Praise from a young admirer......Page 173
42.  Voltaire on Pope......Page 175
43.  An American admirer......Page 176
44.  Dennis reacts to the news of The Dunciad......Page 178
45.  Concanen turns against Pope......Page 180
46.  Savage and Atterbury on Pope’s superiority......Page 185
ODYSSEY......Page 186
47.  ‘Homerides’ on Pope’s sharp practice......Page 187
48.  Defoe defends Pope’s business ethics......Page 189
49.  Joseph Spence on the Odyssey......Page 192
50.  Further remarks by Joseph Spence......Page 219
51.  Concanen on Pope as translator......Page 228
THE DUNCIAD......Page 229
52.  A ‘Club’ of dunce retorts......Page 230
53.  The Dunciad a misuse of Pope’s genius......Page 235
54.  Swift on The Dunciad’s Obscurity......Page 239
THE DUNCIAD VARIORUM......Page 240
55.  Objections to Pope’s obscenity and character assassination......Page 241
56.  Dennis on The Dunciad......Page 244
57.  The Dunciad beneath Pope’s dignity......Page 249
58.  Jacob supports Dennis......Page 250
59.  Walter Harte defends Pope’s satire......Page 252
60.  Fielding on Pope’s achievement......Page 258
GENERAL REACTIONS......Page 259
61.  Richardson assesses Pope......Page 260
62.  Pope as Augustan poet......Page 261
63.  Pope compared to Boileau......Page 264
64.  Pope’s manly satire......Page 265
65.  The Poet finish’d in prose......Page 266
66.  Ordure from Grub Street......Page 268
67.  An epistle from South Carolina......Page 270
68.  Isaac Watts and the Countess of Hertford on Pope’s later work......Page 272
69.  A tribute to Pope’s greatness......Page 274
70.  Isaac Watts on Pope......Page 276
71.  Satire a betrayal of Pope’s genius......Page 277
72.  Sawney and Colley......Page 279
‘ETHICK EPISTLES’ (an abandoned project)......Page 290
73.  Bolingbroke and Swift comment......Page 291
MORAL ESSAYS IV: EPISTLE TO BURLINGTON, OF TASTE......Page 292
74.  Chandos exculpates Pope......Page 293
75.  Welsted on Pope’s ‘Libel’......Page 294
MORAL ESSAYS III: TO ALLEN LORD BATHURST, OF THE USE OF RICHES......Page 297
76.  Swift on obscurity......Page 298
IMITATIONS OF HORACE, SATIRE II. i......Page 299
77.  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu replies in kind......Page 300
78.  Satire as Pope’s vice......Page 304
AN ESSAY ON MAN......Page 308
79.  Pope describes the poem’s reception......Page 309
80.  Initial reactions......Page 310
81.  Pope’s orthodoxy queried......Page 313
82.  Abbé du Resnel’s opinion......Page 316
83.  Crousaz attacks An Essay on Man......Page 326
84.  Dr Warburton replies to Crousaz......Page 336
85.  ‘A Hodge-Podge Mess of Philosophy’......Page 344
EPITAPH ON MR. GAY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY......Page 345
86.  Swift’s criticisms......Page 346
IMITATIONS OF HORACE: SERM. I. ii (SOBER ADVICE FROM HORACE)......Page 347
87.  Thomas Bentley satirizes Pope......Page 348
AN EPISTLE FROM MR. POPE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT......Page 357
88.  Three opinions......Page 358
EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES: DIALOGUE II......Page 360
89.  Opinions of Aaron Hill and Swift......Page 361
THE NEW DUNCIAD: AS IT WAS FOUND IN THE YEAR 1741......Page 362
90.  The reaction of Shenstone and Grey......Page 363
91.  Cibber’s story of Pope on the ‘Mount of Love’......Page 364
92.  Fielding champions Pope......Page 368
93.  Richardson on The Dunciad (1742)......Page 369
THE DUNCIAD IN FOUR BOOKS......Page 371
94.  ‘Orator’ Henley on The Dunciad (1743)......Page 372
95.  Richardson on The Dunciad (1744)......Page 375
A FINAL TRIBUTE......Page 376
96.  An Elegy by a friend......Page 377
Part II LATER CRITICISM......Page 381
97.  An early biographer’s assessment......Page 382
98.  Gray on Pope and virtue......Page 387
99.  Johnson on ‘Sound and Sense’......Page 388
100.  Warburton as editorial commentator......Page 390
101.  Catherine Talbot on Pope......Page 395
102 Cowper on Pope’s Homer......Page 396
103.  French praise for the Pastorals......Page 397
104.  A mid-century comparison of Pope and Dryden......Page 398
105.  Warton on Pope’s borrowings......Page 402
106.  Warton’s Essay, volume i......Page 409
107.  Johnson reviews Warton......Page 438
108.  Johnson on Pope’s Epitaphs......Page 442
109.  Voltaire on Pope as philosophe......Page 451
110.  Richardson on Pope’s lack of genius......Page 452
111.  Critical clichés of 1759......Page 454
112.  Young on Pope’s lack of originality......Page 457
113 Algarotti on Pope......Page 461
114 Johnson on Pope and ‘easy poetry’......Page 463
115 Pope and Boileau in conversation......Page 465
116 An Edinburgh professor’s view......Page 468
117 Lord Kames on Pope......Page 470
118 Pope, Homer, and the nature of genius......Page 477
119 A French imitator of The Dunciad......Page 483
120 Pope, ‘The Last English Muse’......Page 485
121 Ruffhead replies to Warton......Page 487
122 Johnson reviews Ruffhead......Page 494
123 Thomas Warton on The Temple of Fame......Page 496
124 Sound and sense in Pope again......Page 497
125 Stockdale replies to Warton......Page 500
126 William Cowper on Pope......Page 504
127 Johnson on Pope......Page 506
128.  Warton’s Essay, volume ii......Page 535
129.  Hayley on Pope’s genius and his satire......Page 548
130.  Johnson on ‘whit’......Page 551
131.  Vicesimus Knox on the two parties in English poetry......Page 553
APPENDIX A  Pope on versification......Page 555
APPENDIX B  ‘The Ballance of Poets’......Page 558
REPUTATION......Page 563
I.  POPE’S WORKS......Page 565
II.  CRITICS AND ANONYMOUS PIECES......Page 566
III.  IMPORTANT TOPICS AND COMPARISONS WITH OTHER WRITERS......Page 568