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THE WORKS

OF

ALEXANDER POPE.

NEW EDITION.

INCLUDING

SEVERAL HUNDRED UNPUBLISHED LETTERS, AND OTHER NEW MATERIALS.

COLLECTED IN PART BY THE LATE

R'T. HON. JOHN WILSON CROKER.

WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES.

BY REV. WHITWELL ELWIN.

VOL. I.

POETRY.--VOL. I.

WITH PORTRAITS AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS.

LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1871.

[_The right of Translation is reserved._]


LONDON:
BRADBURY, EVANS, AND CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.




CONTENTS

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME OF POETRY.


                                                           PAGE
CATALOGUE OF POPE'S COLLECTED EDITIONS OF HIS WORKS         vii

POPE'S MEMORIAL LIST OF RELATIONS AND FRIENDS                ix

ADVERTISEMENT OF WARBURTON TO HIS EDITION OF POPE'S WORKS    xi

INTRODUCTION                                                 xv

THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE                                          1

RECOMMENDATORY POEMS                                         17

TRANSLATIONS                                                 37
    THE FIRST BOOK OF STATIUS'S THEBAIS                      41
    SAPPHO TO PHAON FROM OVID                                87
    THE FABLE OF DRYOPE FROM OVID                           104
    VERTUMNUS AND POMONA FROM OVID                          108

JANUARY AND MAY, FROM CHAUCER                               113

THE WIFE OF BATH, FROM CHAUC