Pope drawing. Credit: S. Constantine
A selective bibliography of open access articles on 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
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
Biographical introduction to Pope "English essayist, critic, satirist, and one of the greatest poets of Enlightenment," from the Books and Writers site
Biographical introduction to Alexander Pope by Samuel Johnson Text of Johnson's Preface to the Works of Alexander Pope
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.
A brief article on Pope as landscape architect. "On Pope's Grotto" from the Twickenham Museum (removed)
For a list of works by Alexander Pope available on the internet as etexts, see the On-Line Books Page, a search engine for finding internet full texts
An academic list of Eighteenth-Century Resources, from Jack Lynch, Rutgers
Selected Bibliography: Alexander Pope. A primary and secondary bibliography, organized by category, with annotations. By Frans De Bruyn, Univ. of Ottawa, 3 June 2001, from c18 Bibliographies Online (removed from http://www.c18.rutgers.edu/biblio/pope.html)
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