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Title: Motto
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Pope's Universal Prayer
Date(s): 1715
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: The final stanza of Alexander Pope's "Universal Prayer", urging praise of God, appended to James Merrick's "Benedicite"
Title: Boetius, de Consol. Philos. Lib.3, Met.9, p.99
Author: Pope, Alexander
Date(s): 1703 or 1704 ?
Manuscript: Lt 16
Contents: Prayer to God as creator and source of reason, for inspiration, strength and
comfort. Translated from Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, III.9. Cf.
BCMSV 1253.
Title: On Voiture the French witt
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Pope
Date(s): 1712 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Extract from Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Miss Blount with the works
of Voiture", praising the French writer's unconventional wit, humour and
literary skill
Title: To the author of a poem entituled Successio
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope
Date(s): 1712 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Satire on the dullness and small literary ability of Elkanah Settle
Title: Epitaph design'd for Mr Rowe in Westminster Abbey. To the memory of Nicholas
Rowe Esq. his wife erected this monument
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope
Date(s): 1718
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Epitaph on Nicholas Rowe's monument in Westminster Abbey, praising him
Title: On silence, in imitation of the style of the late E. of R.
Author: Pope, Alexander
Date(s): 1712 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: On the place of silence in the history of the universe and in wordly affairs,
generally praising it, imitating "Upon Nothing" by John Wilmot, Earl of
Rochester. Lightly satirical.
Title: To a young lady under the name of Zephalinda on her leaving the town after
the coronation
Author: Pope, Alexander
Date(s): 1714
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: On a young woman (Teresa Blount) sad to exchange the flirtatious pleasures of
London town, after the coronation of George I, for the monotony of the
country, describing the life she might lead there
Title: Epitaph made on two lovers struck dead with one flash of lightning as they
were at work in the fields near Oxford
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope
Date(s): 1718
Manuscript: Lt 20
Contents: Epitaph on John Hewet and Sarah Drew of Stanton Harcourt, two lovers killed
simultaneously by lightning when harvesting, praising their virtue
Title: A version of the first psalm for the use of a young lady
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 1716 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 35
Contents: Facetious advice to young women on gaining good husbands by shunning
wantonness, parodying Thomas Sternhold's translation of Psalm 1
Title: Messiah. A sacred eclogue.
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope; [Bible]
Date(s): 1712 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem joyfully anticipating the birth of Christ, based on passages
from Isaiah; imitating Virgil's fourth Pastoral, or Eclogue
Title: Verses on providence extracted from the Essay on Man
Author: Pope, Alexander
Date(s): 1733 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: On the unity, interconnectedness and rightness of all of God's creation;
extracted and abridged from Alexander Pope's "Essay on Man", I.
Title: From Mr Pope's "Essay on Man"
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope
Date(s): 1733 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: On civilized mankind's questioning of the laws of God's creation contrasted
with the Indian's contentment with simple natural religion; extracted from
Alexander Pope's "Essay on Man", I.
Title: To the soul
Author: Pope, Alexander
Date(s): 1736 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem, address to the soul at the point of death, anticipating
heaven. The revised version of Alexander Pope's Christian adaptation of
the Emperor Hadrian's death-bed verses.
Imitations of Horace; with An epistle to Dr Arbuthnot ; and, The epilogue to the satires
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Butt, John (1906-1965)
1939
Index.
Title: Finish'd by Mr Pope
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope
Date(s): 1720 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: On the pleasant surroundings that men construct for themselves being only
unsuccessful attempts to ward off life's cares and sorrows. Extracted and
altered from a poem addressed to John Gay to form a response to Benjamin
Ibbot's "A fit of the spleen", whi
Title: An ode on solitude written by Mr Pope before he was twelve years old
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope
Date(s): 1727 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: In praise of a life of quiet country retirement, virtuous, happy and
sufficient; the text is that of the 1727 version. Lacks some 7 lines where a
portion of f.40 has been removed, perhaps for the sake of the indexed poem "To
Sir Godfrey Kneller on paintin
Title: Argos, Ulisses's dog
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: The same [i.e. Mr Pope]; [Greek]
Date(s): 1727 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: On Ulysses (Odysseus) being recognised by his dog Argus on his return home,
from an incident in Homer's "Odyssey"
Title: Epitaph [monumental inscription follows]
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope
Date(s): 1718
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Epitaph on John Hewet and Sarah Drew of Stanton Harcourt, two lovers killed
simultaneously by lightning when harvesting, praising their virtue
Title: Another psalm for the use of the fine ladies
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope; [Bible]
Date(s): 1716 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Facetious advice to young women on gaining good husbands by shunning
wantonness, parodying Thomas Sternhold's translation of Psalm 1.
Title: On a young lady's leaving the town after the coronation
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope
Date(s): 1714
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: On a young woman (Teresa Blount) sad to exchange the flirtatious pleasures of
London town, after the coronation of George I, for the monotony of the
country, describing the life she might lead there
Title: The rape of the lock
Author: Pope, Alexander
Date(s): 1714 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: Lightly satirical mock-heroic tale of the cutting off of a beautiful young
society woman's lock of hair by an admiring lover. In five cantos. Appears to
combine readings from the 1714 and 1717 editions.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Pope in his trans. of Homer; [Greek]
Date(s): 1717 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 44
Contents: Extract from Alexander Pope's translation of Homer's "Iliad", III.283-86,
describing Odysseus's power of speech, or oratory
Title: [unknown]
Author: Pope, Alexander
Date(s): 1718 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 44
Contents: Extract from Alexander Pope's translation of Homer's "Iliad", IV.156-57,
describing the flight of the arrow shot by Pandarus at Menelaus
Title: Voiture
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Pope to a young lady with the works of Voiture, ap. Lintott's
Date(s): 1712 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: Extract from Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Miss Blount with the works of
Voiture", praising the French writer's unconventional wit,
humour and literary skill