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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: A receipt to make a soup sent by Mr Pope to Dean Swift
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope
Date(s): 1726 ?
Manuscript: Lt 72
Contents: Humorous recipe for soup, partly riddling (some solutions given), addressed to Jonathan Swift
Title: Mr Pope's receipt to make soup for the use of Dean Swift
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope
Date(s): 1726 ?
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Humorous recipe for soup, partly riddling (some solutions given), addressed
to Jonathan Swift. Lacks two lines of the usual version.
Title: To the ingenious Mr John Moore, author of the celebrated worm powder
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope
Date(s): 1716 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Witty satire on the idea of men as worms and other kinds of insects,
taking John Moore's worm powder as starting-point
Title: The following epitaph said to be wrote by Mr Pope for himself 1742
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope
Date(s): 1741 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Epitaph for his own gravestone, expressing confidence in God and independence
of the world's opinion