Pope drawing. Credit: S. Constantine
A selective list of articles on the eighteenth-century British poet, satirist, translator, editor, and literary critic Alexander Pope, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages
Main Page | 18th-Century British Literature | About Literaryhistory.com
Gordon, I.R.F. An introduction to Alexander Pope from the Literary Encyclopedia, 2002-03-03. On Pastorals (1709); Essay on Criticism (1711); The Rape of the Lock (1712); Windsor-Forest (1713); Eloisa to Abelard (1717); Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (1717); The Works of William Shakespeare (1725); Peri Bathous, or the Art of Sinking in Poetry (1727); Dunciad (1728); An Epistle to Burlington [Moral Essay IV] (1731); Imitations of Horace (1733); An Essay on Man (1733); An Epistle to Bathurst [Moral Essay III] (1733); An Epistle to Cobham [Moral Essay I] (1734); An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot (1735); An Epistle to a Lady [Moral Essay II] (1735); Epilogue to the Satires: Dialogues I & II (1738); Moral Essays (1751)
Web site on The Rape of the Lock, includes many old illustrations for the poem, Pope's own explanation for it, chronology, and more. From S. Constantine, Univ. of Massachusetts
Introduction to Alexander Pope from the Catholic Encyclopedia
An overview of Alexander Pope from the Victorian Web, by George P. Landow, Brown University
"Augustan ideas about art and human moral nature." Compares Horace's Ars Poetica (in Latin) and Boileau's Art poétique (in French) with Pope's Essay on Criticism. The site includes a special Latin dictionary with definitions keyed to the words included in the selections. From a class by W. C. Dowling, at Rutgers Univ.
The American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies web site
A brief article on Pope as landscape architect. "On Pope's Grotto" from the Twickenham Museum (taken offline)
Main Page | 18th-Century British Literature | About Literaryhistory.com
1998-2009 by Jan Pridmore