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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SEVERAL HUNDRED UNPUBLISHED LETTERS, AND OTHER NEW MATERIALS.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 CHAUCER                              155

THE TEMPLE OF FAME                                          185

PASTORALS                                                   231
    DISCOURSE OF PASTORAL POETRY                            257
    1. SPRING, TO SIR WILLIAM TRUMBULL                      265
    2. SUMMER TO DR. GARTH                                  276
    3. AUTUMN TO MR. WYCHERLEY                              285
    4. WINTER, TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. TEMPEST                292

MESSIAH, A SACRED ECLOGUE                                   301

WINDSOR FOREST                                              319




CATALOGUE

OF POPE'S COLLECTED EDITIONS OF HIS WORKS.


     The Works of Mr. ALEXANDER POPE. London: Printed by W.
     BOWYER for BERNARD LINTOT, between the Temple Gates, 1717.
     4to and folio.

This volume consists of all the acknowledged poems which Pope had
hitherto published, with the addition of some new pieces.


     The Works of Mr. ALEXANDER POPE. Volume ii. London: Printed
     by J. WRIGHT, for LAWTON GILLIVER, at Homer's Head in Fleet
     Street, 1735. 4to and folio.

The volume of 1735 contains, with a few exceptions, the poems which Pope
had printed since 1717. The pages of each group of pieces--Epistles,
Satires, Epitaphs, etc.--are numbered separately, and there are other
irregularities in the numbers, arising from a change in the order of the
Moral Essays after the sheets were struck off.


     Letters of Mr. ALEXANDER POPE, and Several of his friends.
     London: Printed by J. WRIGHT for J. KNAPTON in Ludgate
     Street, L. GILLIVER in Fleet Street, J. BRINDLEY in New Bond
     Street, and R. DODSLEY in Pall-Mall, 1737. 4to and folio.


This is Pope's first avowed edition of his letters. A half-title, "The
Works of Mr. Alexander Pope in Prose," precedes the title-page.


     The Works of Mr. ALEXANDER POPE, in Prose. Vol. ii. London:
     Printed for J. and P. KNAPTON, C. BATHURST, and R. DODSLEY,
     1741. 4to and folio.

The half-title is more precise: "The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, in
Prose. Vol. ii. Containing the rest of his Letters, with the Memoirs of
Scriblerus, never before printed; and other Tracts written either
singly, or in conjunction with his friends. Now first collected
together." The letters are the Swift correspondence, and they are in a
different type from the rest of the book. The numbers of the pages are
very irregular, and show that the contents and arrangement of the volume
had been greatly altered from some previous impression. The folio copies
of the two volumes of poetry, and the two of prose, are merely the
quarto text portioned out into longer pages, without a single leaf being
reprinted. The trifling variations from the quartos were introduced when
the matter was put into the folio size.


     The Works of ALEXANDER POPE, ESQ.; vol. i. with explanatory
     Notes and Additions never before printed. London: Printed
     for B. LINTOT, 1736. Small 8vo.

This is the first volume of an edition which extended to nine volumes,
and which from the want of uniformity in the title-pages, the dates, and
names of the publishers appears to consist of odd volumes. The copyright
of Pope's works belonged to different proprietors, and they at last
agreed to print their respective shares in small octavo, that the
several parts united might form a complete set. Each proprietor
commenced printing his particular section of the octavos when the
previous sizes he had on hand were sold, and thus it happened that the
second volume of the edition came out in 1735 before the first, which
was published in 1736. The series was not finished till 1742, when the
fourth book of the Dunciad was added to the Poems, and the Swift
Correspondence to the Letters. Some of the volumes were reprinted, and
the later editions occasionally differ slightly from their predecessors.
The Poems and Letters of Pope are more complete in the octavos than in
the quartos, but the octavos, on the other hand, omit all the prose
works except the Letters, and the Memoirs of Scriblerus, and octavos and
quartos combined are imperfect in comparison with the editions which
have been published since Pope's death.




A MEMORIAL LIST

OF

DEPARTED RELATIONS AND FRIENDS.

WRITTEN BY POPE IN AN ELZEVIR VIRGIL, NOW IN THE LIBRARY OF THE EARL OF
MANSFIELD.[1]

NATUS MAJI 21, 1688, HORA POST MERID. 6-3/4.

    Quo desiderio veteres revocamus amores
      Atque olim amissas flemus amicitias.

                          _Catullus._


Anno 1700, Maji primo, obit, semper venerandus, poetarum princeps,
Joannes Dryden, aet. 70.[2]

Anno 1708, mens. Aprili, obiit Gulielmus Walsh, criticus sagax, amicus
et vir bonus, aet. 49.

Anno 1710, Jan. 24, Avita mea piissimae mem., Eliz. Turner, migravit in
coelum, annum agens 74.

Anno 1710, mens. Aprili, Tho. Betterton, Roscius sui temporis, exit
omnium cum plausu bonorum, aet. 74.

Anno 1712, mens. Januario, decessit vir facetissimus, juventutis meae
deliciae, Antonius Englefleld, aet. 75.

Anno 1718, obit Tho. Parnell, poetica laude, et moribus suavissimis
insignis.

Anno 1715, mens. Martio, decessit Gul. Wycherley, poeta morum scientia
clarus, ille meos primus qui habebat amores, aet. 75.

Anno 1716, mens. Decemb. obit Gulielmus Trumbull, olim Regi Gul. a
secretis, annum agens 75. Amicus meus humanissimus a juvenilibus annis.

Pater meus, Alex. Pope, omnibus bonis moribus praeditus obit, an. 1717.

Simon Harcourt, filius, obit, mens. Junio 1720, Lutet. Parisior. Quem
sequitur Pater, olim M. Britann. Cancellar., mense Julio 1727.

Jacobus Craggs R.M.B. a secretis, natura generosus et ingenuus, amicus
animosus, charissim. memor., e vita exc. Feb. 1720/1.

Robertus Oxoniae Comes, mihi perfamiliaris et jucundus, fortiter obit,
1724.

Jo. Sheffield, Buckinghamiae Dux, mihi lenis et amicissimus, fato functus
est Feb. 1720/1 aet. 73.

Nutrix mea fidelissima M. Beech, obiit 5 Novem. 1725, aet. 77.

Robertus Digby, ex Patre antiquis praeditus moribus, e vita migravit,
Apr. 1726.

Edwardus Blunt, vir amicissimus obit, Aug. 1726.

Anno 1728/9, Jan. 20, aet. 57, mortuus est Gulielmus Congreve, poeta,
eximius, vir comis, urbanus, et mihi perquam familiaris.

Elijah Fenton, vir probus, et poeta haud mediocris, decessit men. Julio
1730, aet. 48.

Francisc. Atterbury, Roffens Episcopus, vir omni scientia clarus,
animos