interest a very valuable and suggestive Essay on Pope in the number of the 'Revue des Deux Mondes' for March, 1888, by M. Emile Montégut, which shows the effect that the poet's work still produces on the best minds in foreign countries. Finally I must return my sincere thanks to Mr. Fortescue, Superintendent of the Reading Room of the British Museum, for the unfailing kindness he has shown in providing me with every convenience for research on the too few occasions on which I have been able to avail myself of the resources of the Museum Library.

W. J. C.

ERRATA.

Pages 62 and 356. For "Conceptualists "read" Conceptistas."

Page 104. For "quatre temps on vigile," read "quatre temps ou vigile."

153. For "letting his imagination monopolise the action he was about to describe in English verse," read "letting the action, &c., monopolise his imagination."

170. Stanza ii. v. 1. After "Did I not see" insert "thee."

186. Note 2. For "Vol. X." read "Vol. IX."

246. In sentence beginning: "It does not indeed follow that, because he failed," omit "that."

262. For "to whom he was married later in the same year," read "to whom he had been married earlier in the same year."

291. For "clandestine correspondence" read "clandestine publication."

349. For "when she wrote to him her first dated letter," read "when he wrote to her, &c."

359. For "for forms of faith" read "for modes of faith."

371. For "by the common language of the peasantry,” read “in the common language, &c."

Life at Binfield-Translation of Statius-The Pastorals'-'Windsor

Forest '-'The Messiah'

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CHAPTER III.

'ESSAY ON CRITICISM.' 1711.

Opposite Judgments on the Poem-Imitation of Nature-Origin of

False Wit-Authority of the Classics-Effects of the Essay' on

Public Taste

CHAPTER IV.

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INTRODUCTION TO LONDON LIFE. 1704-1713.

> Correspondence with Wycherley, Cromwell, and Caryll-Will's Coffee

House-Button's - Addison - Rowe-Steele-Jervas-Completion

of Windsor Forest '-Prologue to ' Cato '-Satires on Dennis and

Ambrose Philips

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CHAPTER V.

'THE RAPE OF THE LOCK.' 1712-1714.

Early Version-La Secchia Rapita - Le Lutrin '-'The Dispensary '-

Superiority of 'The Rape of the Lock' to all other Mock-Heroic

Poems

92

CHAPTER VI.

LIFE IN LONDON AND AT CHISWICK AFTER THE REVOLUTION

OF 1714. 1714-1717.

Changes produced by the death of Queen Anne-Temple of Fame -

Pope's first visit to Bath-His Farewell to London'-Removal

from Windsor Forest to Chiswick-Friendship with Gay and

Quarrels with Curll and Cibber

CHAPTER VII.

POPE'S RELATIONS WITH WOMEN. 1708-1718.

PAGE

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Mrs. Nelson- Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady'- Lady

M. W. Montagu and the 'Epistle of Eloisa to Abelard '-Corres-

pondence with Lady M. W. Montagu-Correspondence with Teresa

and Martha Blount

128

CHAPTER VIII.

THE TRANSLATION OF THE ILIAD. 1713-1720.

Origin of the Translation-Difficulties of the Work-Quarrel with

Addison-Comparison of Pope's Translation with Chapman's and

Worsley's-Stanton Harcourt-Gay's Welcome from Greece' . . 148

CHAPTER IX.

LIFE AT TWICKENHAM. 1720-1726.

Lord Bathurst-Villa at Twickenham-The South Sea Bubble-Atter-

bury's Plot-Edition of Shakespeare-Translation of the Odyssey 179

CHAPTER X.

THE WAR WITH THE DUNCES. 1726-1737.

The 'Miscellanies'—Origin of the 'Dunciad '-Its motives as de-

scribed by Cleland and Savage-Its real motives-Pope's causes of

quarrel with the various persons satirised-The Grub Street Journal 211

CHAPTER XI.

THE ESSAY ON MAN' AND THE MORAL ESSAYS.' 1729-1733.

Bolingbroke's Influence on Pope-Epistle to Burlington on Taste-

Character of Timon-Epistle to Bathurst on 'The Use of Riches '-

Reason for the anonymous publication of the Essay on Man '-

Merits and Defects of the Essay,

232

CHAPTER XII.

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PERIOD. 1733-1735.

Death of Gay-First Imitation of Horace '-' Verses to the Imitator of

Horace' and 'Letter to a Doctor of Divinity-Letter to a Noble

Lord-Epistle to Arbuthnot'-Death of Pope's Mother and of

Arbuthnot.

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CHAPTER XIII.

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PERIOD. 1729-1741.

Edition of Wycherley's Works-Clandestine Dealings with Curll-Sur-

reptitious Edition of Correspondence in 1735-Authorised Edition

of 1737-Publication of Correspondence with Swift

CHAPTER XIV.

POPE AND THE PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION. 1733-1740.

Death of Peterborough-Despondency of Swift-The Political Situation

-The Third Moral Essay-The Opposition and the Prince of

Wales-Introduction of Pope to the Prince-Epistle to Augustus'

-Seventeen Hundred and Thirty-eight'-Secession of the Oppo-

sition from Parliament-Conferences at Pope's Villa-'1740'

CHAPTER XV.

THE CLOSING YEARS OF POPE'S LIFE. 1739-1744.

Pope assists Dodsley, Savage, and Johnson-Attack of Crousaz on the

Essay on Man'-Warburton-The 'New Dunciad'-Quarrel with

Cibber-Ralph Allen-Martha Blount and the Allens-Pope's

Will-Last Illness and Death-Bolingbroke's attack on Pope's

memory-Character of Atossa

CHAPTER XVI.

THE PLACE OF POPE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE.

Difference between the Greek and the Mediæval Idea of Nature-Decay

of the Medieval Idea-Revival of Classical Principles of Criticism

-Pope's principles of Poetical Conception and Poetical Diction-

Objections to his principles and practice-Historical survey of the

Revival of the Romantic principle-Warton-Bowles-Controversy

respecting Pope in 1819-Rise of the Lake School-Wordsworth's

theory of Poetical Conception and Poetical Diction-Coleridge's

opinion-Examination of the Theory of Wordsworth and Coleridge

-Matthew Arnold's view of Pope's place in English Literature—

Conclusion.

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