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Title: To Mr Moor author of the worm powder
Author: Pope, Alexander
Date(s): 1716 (published)
Manuscript: Lt q 40
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: Messiah, A sacred eclogue in imitation of Virgil's Pollio
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Mr Pope; [Bible]
Date(s): 1712 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 67
Contents: Religious poem joyfully anticipating the birth of Christ, based on passages from Isaiah; imitating Virgil's fourth Pastoral or Eclogue. This copy provided with footnotes giving precise biblical references.
Title: Ode, The dying Christian to his soul ... in imitation of the
Emperour Adrian's famous sonnet
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Pope; [Latin]
Date(s): 1736 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 67
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.
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: On a Lady with one fault occasion'd by a spitefull persons saying she was deaf
Author: Pope, Alexander
Date(s): 1725 ?
Manuscript: Lt 72
Contents: In praise of Henrietta Howard, later Countess of Suffolk
Title: To Quinbus Flestrin, the man-mountain. A Lilliputian ode.
Author: Pope, Alexander
Date(s): 1727 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: Praise of the great height of Quinbus Flestrin, the Lilliputian's name for Gulliver in Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels'; in pretend Lilliputian style
Title: To a lady. Sent on her birth-day.
Author: Pope, Alexander
Date(s): 1723
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: In celebration of a lady's birthday, wishing that she may have a comfortable and satisfying life on earth, a painless death and eternal life in heaven
Title: To a lady, on her leaving the Town
Author: Pope, Alexander
Date(s): 1714
Manuscript: Lt 93
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; lacking two lines
Title: [unknown]
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: John Gay
Date(s): 1718
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: Epitaph closing a prose letter (ff.55r-57r) supposedly from John Gay to Alexander Pope, on two lovers killed by lightning when harvesting. The first of Pope's 'Three epitaphs on John Hewet and Sarah Drew' (of Stanton Harcourt).
Title: [unknown]
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Pope's Homer Book 20th
Date(s): 1720 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 95
Contents: Describing the involvement of the gods in the Trojan war; extract from Alexander Pope's translation of Homer's "Iliad", XX
Title: [unknown]
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: idem [i.e. Pope's Homer] Book 5
Date(s): 1716 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 95
Contents: On the wounding of Venus by Diomed; extract from Alexander Pope's translation of Homer's "Iliad", V
Title: [unknown]
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: idem ibid [i.e.Pope's Homer Book 5]
Date(s): 1716 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 95
Contents: On the imprisonment of Mars; extract from Alexander Pope's translation of Homer's "Iliad", V