The Collected Critical Heritage I: Alexander Pope: The Critical Heritage (the Collected Critical Heritage : The Restoration And The Augustans) (volume 2)

BOOK COVER......Page 1 HALF-TITLE......Page 2 TITLE......Page 4 COPYRIGHT......Page 5 GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE......Page 6 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 7 CONTENTS......Page 8 ABBREVIATIONS......Page 18 PREFACE......Page 19 I......Page 21 II......Page 24 III EARLY CAREER (1705–20)......Page 26 Early poems......Page 27 The Iliad......Page 30 IV CONSOLIDATION AND COUNTER-OFFENSIVE (1721–9)......Page 31 The Odyssey......Page 32 The Dunciad (1728) and the nature of satire......Page 33 V LATER CAREER (1730–44)......Page 35 Moral Essays and Imitations of Horace (1731–8)......Page 36 An Essay on Man (1733)......Page 37 The Dunciad (1742, 1743)......Page 38 VI CRITICISM OF POPE (1745–82)......Page 39 VII FOREIGN REPUTATION......Page 45 VIII......Page 46 NOTES......Page 49 NOTE ON THE TEXT......Page 53 PART I CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM......Page 54 GENERAL REACTIONS......Page 55 1. Wycherley welcomes the young poet......Page 56 2. Opinions of Gay and Addison......Page 57 3. John Dennis’s ‘Character’ of Pope......Page 58 4. Welsted on Pope’s ‘vulgar art’......Page 66 5. Parnell assesses Pope’s early career......Page 67 6. Two assessments......Page 70 PASTORALS......Page 72 7. Reactions 1705–9......Page 73 8. Wycherley’s public acclamation......Page 75 9. Pope compares himself with Philips......Page 77 AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM......Page 84 10. Dennis’s first attack on Pope......Page 85 11. Addison on An Essay on Criticism......Page 91 12. Gildon’s first attack on Pope......Page 95 13. Aaron Hill ‘improves’ An Essay on Criticism......Page 97 14. Two contrasting views......Page 100 MESSIAH, A SACRED ECLOGUE......Page 101 15. Steele’s comments......Page 102 WINDSOR FOREST......Page 103 16. Dennis’s opinion......Page 104 17. Another comparison with Cooper’s Hill......Page 106 THE RAPE OF THE LOCK......Page 108 18. Trumbull’s and Berkeley’s immediate response......Page 109 19. ‘Bawdy’ in The Rape of the Lock......Page 110 20. Dennis’s opinion......Page 113 21. William Bond’s opinion......Page 123 22. Concanen’s praise......Page 125 23. A French assessment......Page 126 24. Two Italian assessments......Page 128 ILIAD......Page 130 25. Preliminary praise......Page 131 26. Preliminary Censure from ‘Sir Iliad Doggrel’......Page 132 27. The battle between Pope and Tickell begins......Page 134 28. The public takes sides......Page 136 29. Theobald praises the Iliad......Page 140 30. ‘Sir Tremendous Longinus’ replies......Page 142 31. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s praise......Page 147 32. An eminent French scholar attacks Pope’s view of Homer......Page 148 33. William Melmoth’s opinion......Page 153 A ROMAN CATHOLICK VERSION OF THE FIRST PSALM......Page 157 34. Blackmore on Pope’s profane obscenity......Page 158 ELOISA TO ABELARD......Page 159 35. Matthew Prior’s and James Delacour’s praise......Page 160 ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY......Page 162 36. Blacklock is ‘thrown into Agitation’......Page 163 EPITAPH ON JOHN HEWET AND SARAH DREW IN THE CHURCH-YARD AT STANTON HARCOURT......Page 164 37. Reactions of Atterbury and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu......Page 165 GENERAL REACTIONS......Page 168 38. Concanen praises Pope with Eusden......Page 169 39. Bolingbroke gives advice......Page 170 40. Young urges Pope to satire......Page 172 41. Praise from a young admirer......Page 173 42. Voltaire on Pope......Page 175 43. An American admirer......Page 176 44. Dennis reacts to the news of The Dunciad......Page 178 45. Concanen turns against Pope......Page 180 46. Savage and Atterbury on Pope’s superiority......Page 185 ODYSSEY......Page 186 47. ‘Homerides’ on Pope’s sharp practice......Page 187 48. Defoe defends Pope’s business ethics......Page 189 49. Joseph Spence on the Odyssey......Page 192 50. Further remarks by Joseph Spence......Page 219 51. Concanen on Pope as translator......Page 228 THE DUNCIAD......Page 229 52. A ‘Club’ of dunce retorts......Page 230 53. The Dunciad a misuse of Pope’s genius......Page 235 54. Swift on The Dunciad’s Obscurity......Page 239 THE DUNCIAD VARIORUM......Page 240 55. Objections to Pope’s obscenity and character assassination......Page 241 56. Dennis on The Dunciad......Page 244 57. The Dunciad beneath Pope’s dignity......Page 249 58. Jacob supports Dennis......Page 250 59. Walter Harte defends Pope’s satire......Page 252 60. Fielding on Pope’s achievement......Page 258 GENERAL REACTIONS......Page 259 61. Richardson assesses Pope......Page 260 62. Pope as Augustan poet......Page 261 63. Pope compared to Boileau......Page 264 64. Pope’s manly satire......Page 265 65. The Poet finish’d in prose......Page 266 66. Ordure from Grub Street......Page 268 67. An epistle from South Carolina......Page 270 68. Isaac Watts and the Countess of Hertford on Pope’s later work......Page 272 69. A tribute to Pope’s greatness......Page 274 70. Isaac Watts on Pope......Page 276 71. Satire a betrayal of Pope’s genius......Page 277 72. Sawney and Colley......Page 279 ‘ETHICK EPISTLES’ (an abandoned project)......Page 290 73. Bolingbroke and Swift comment......Page 291 MORAL ESSAYS IV: EPISTLE TO BURLINGTON, OF TASTE......Page 292 74. Chandos exculpates Pope......Page 293 75. Welsted on Pope’s ‘Libel’......Page 294 MORAL ESSAYS III: TO ALLEN LORD BATHURST, OF THE USE OF RICHES......Page 297 76. Swift on obscurity......Page 298 IMITATIONS OF HORACE, SATIRE II. i......Page 299 77. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu replies in kind......Page 300 78. Satire as Pope’s vice......Page 304 AN ESSAY ON MAN......Page 308 79. Pope describes the poem’s reception......Page 309 80. Initial reactions......Page 310 81. Pope’s orthodoxy queried......Page 313 82. Abbé du Resnel’s opinion......Page 316 83. Crousaz attacks An Essay on Man......Page 326 84. Dr Warburton replies to Crousaz......Page 336 85. ‘A Hodge-Podge Mess of Philosophy’......Page 344 EPITAPH ON MR. GAY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY......Page 345 86. Swift’s criticisms......Page 346 IMITATIONS OF HORACE: SERM. I. ii (SOBER ADVICE FROM HORACE)......Page 347 87. Thomas Bentley satirizes Pope......Page 348 AN EPISTLE FROM MR. POPE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT......Page 357 88. Three opinions......Page 358 EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES: DIALOGUE II......Page 360 89. Opinions of Aaron Hill and Swift......Page 361 THE NEW DUNCIAD: AS IT WAS FOUND IN THE YEAR 1741......Page 362 90. The reaction of Shenstone and Grey......Page 363 91. Cibber’s story of Pope on the ‘Mount of Love’......Page 364 92. Fielding champions Pope......Page 368 93. Richardson on The Dunciad (1742)......Page 369 THE DUNCIAD IN FOUR BOOKS......Page 371 94. ‘Orator’ Henley on The Dunciad (1743)......Page 372 95. Richardson on The Dunciad (1744)......Page 375 A FINAL TRIBUTE......Page 376 96. An Elegy by a friend......Page 377 Part II LATER CRITICISM......Page 381 97. An early biographer’s assessment......Page 382 98. Gray on Pope and virtue......Page 387 99. Johnson on ‘Sound and Sense’......Page 388 100. Warburton as editorial commentator......Page 390 101. Catherine Talbot on Pope......Page 395 102 Cowper on Pope’s Homer......Page 396 103. French praise for the Pastorals......Page 397 104. A mid-century comparison of Pope and Dryden......Page 398 105. Warton on Pope’s borrowings......Page 402 106. Warton’s Essay, volume i......Page 409 107. Johnson reviews Warton......Page 438 108. Johnson on Pope’s Epitaphs......Page 442 109. Voltaire on Pope as philosophe......Page 451 110. Richardson on Pope’s lack of genius......Page 452 111. Critical clichés of 1759......Page 454 112. Young on Pope’s lack of originality......Page 457 113 Algarotti on Pope......Page 461 114 Johnson on Pope and ‘easy poetry’......Page 463 115 Pope and Boileau in conversation......Page 465 116 An Edinburgh professor’s view......Page 468 117 Lord Kames on Pope......Page 470 118 Pope, Homer, and the nature of genius......Page 477 119 A French imitator of The Dunciad......Page 483 120 Pope, ‘The Last English Muse’......Page 485 121 Ruffhead replies to Warton......Page 487 122 Johnson reviews Ruffhead......Page 494 123 Thomas Warton on The Temple of Fame......Page 496 124 Sound and sense in Pope again......Page 497 125 Stockdale replies to Warton......Page 500 126 William Cowper on Pope......Page 504 127 Johnson on Pope......Page 506 128. Warton’s Essay, volume ii......Page 535 129. Hayley on Pope’s genius and his satire......Page 548 130. Johnson on ‘whit’......Page 551 131. Vicesimus Knox on the two parties in English poetry......Page 553 APPENDIX A Pope on versification......Page 555 APPENDIX B ‘The Ballance of Poets’......Page 558 REPUTATION......Page 563 I. POPE’S WORKS......Page 565 II. CRITICS AND ANONYMOUS PIECES......Page 566 III. IMPORTANT TOPICS AND COMPARISONS WITH OTHER WRITERS......Page 568 Language & Literature BOOK COVER 1 HALF-TITLE 2 TITLE 4 COPYRIGHT 5 GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE 6 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 7 CONTENTS 8 ABBREVIATIONS 18 PREFACE 19 INTRODUCTION 21 I 21 II 24 III EARLY CAREER (1705–20) 26 Early poems 27 The Iliad 30 IV CONSOLIDATION AND COUNTER-OFFENSIVE (1721–9) 31 The Odyssey 32 The Dunciad (1728) and the nature of satire 33 V LATER CAREER (1730–44) 35 Moral Essays and Imitations of Horace (1731–8) 36 An Essay on Man (1733) 37 The Dunciad (1742, 1743) 38 VI CRITICISM OF POPE (1745–82) 39 VII FOREIGN REPUTATION 45 VIII 46 NOTES 49 NOTE ON THE TEXT 53 PART I CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM 54 GENERAL REACTIONS 55 1. Wycherley welcomes the young poet 56 2. Opinions of Gay and Addison 57 3. John Dennis’s ‘Character’ of Pope 58 4. Welsted on Pope’s ‘vulgar art’ 66 5. Parnell assesses Pope’s early career 67 6. Two assessments 70 PASTORALS 72 7. Reactions 1705–9 73 8. Wycherley’s public acclamation 75 9. Pope compares himself with Philips 77 AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM 84 10. Dennis’s first attack on Pope 85 11. Addison on An Essay on Criticism 91 12. Gildon’s first attack on Pope 95 13. Aaron Hill ‘improves’ An Essay on Criticism 97 14. Two contrasting views 100 MESSIAH, A SACRED ECLOGUE 101 15. Steele’s comments 102 WINDSOR FOREST 103 16. Dennis’s opinion 104 17. Another comparison with Cooper’s Hill 106 THE RAPE OF THE LOCK 108 18. Trumbull’s and Berkeley’s immediate response 109 19. ‘Bawdy’ in The Rape of the Lock 110 20. Dennis’s opinion 113 21. William Bond’s opinion 123 22. Concanen’s praise 125 23. A French assessment 126 24. Two Italian assessments 128 ILIAD 130 25. Preliminary praise 131 26. Preliminary Censure from ‘Sir Iliad Doggrel’ 132 27. The battle between Pope and Tickell begins 134 28. The public takes sides 136 29. Theobald praises the Iliad 140 30. ‘Sir Tremendous Longinus’ replies 142 31. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s praise 147 32. An eminent French scholar attacks Pope’s view of Homer 148 33. William Melmoth’s opinion 153 A ROMAN CATHOLICK VERSION OF THE FIRST PSALM 157 34. Blackmore on Pope’s profane obscenity 158 ELOISA TO ABELARD 159 35. Matthew Prior’s and James Delacour’s praise 160 ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY 162 36. Blacklock is ‘thrown into Agitation’ 163 EPITAPH ON JOHN HEWET AND SARAH DREW IN THE CHURCH-YARD AT STANTON HARCOURT 164 37. Reactions of Atterbury and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 165 GENERAL REACTIONS 168 38. Concanen praises Pope with Eusden 169 39. Bolingbroke gives advice 170 40. Young urges Pope to satire 172 41. Praise from a young admirer 173 42. Voltaire on Pope 175 43. An American admirer 176 44. Dennis reacts to the news of The Dunciad 178 45. Concanen turns against Pope 180 46. Savage and Atterbury on Pope’s superiority 185 ODYSSEY 186 47. ‘Homerides’ on Pope’s sharp practice 187 48. Defoe defends Pope’s business ethics 189 49. Joseph Spence on the Odyssey 192 50. Further remarks by Joseph Spence 219 51. Concanen on Pope as translator 228 THE DUNCIAD 229 52. A ‘Club’ of dunce retorts 230 53. The Dunciad a misuse of Pope’s genius 235 54. Swift on The Dunciad’s Obscurity 239 THE DUNCIAD VARIORUM 240 55. Objections to Pope’s obscenity and character assassination 241 56. Dennis on The Dunciad 244 57. The Dunciad beneath Pope’s dignity 249 58. Jacob supports Dennis 250 59. Walter Harte defends Pope’s satire 252 60. Fielding on Pope’s achievement 258 GENERAL REACTIONS 259 61. Richardson assesses Pope 260 62. Pope as Augustan poet 261 63. Pope compared to Boileau 264 64. Pope’s manly satire 265 65. The Poet finish’d in prose 266 66. Ordure from Grub Street 268 67. An epistle from South Carolina 270 68. Isaac Watts and the Countess of Hertford on Pope’s later work 272 69. A tribute to Pope’s greatness 274 70. Isaac Watts on Pope 276 71. Satire a betrayal of Pope’s genius 277 72. Sawney and Colley 279 ‘ETHICK EPISTLES’ (an abandoned project) 290 73. Bolingbroke and Swift comment 291 MORAL ESSAYS IV: EPISTLE TO BURLINGTON, OF TASTE 292 74. Chandos exculpates Pope 293 75. Welsted on Pope’s ‘Libel’ 294 MORAL ESSAYS III: TO ALLEN LORD BATHURST, OF THE USE OF RICHES 297 76. Swift on obscurity 298 IMITATIONS OF HORACE, SATIRE II. i 299 77. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu replies in kind 300 78. Satire as Pope’s vice 304 AN ESSAY ON MAN 308 79. Pope describes the poem’s reception 309 80. Initial reactions 310 81. Pope’s orthodoxy queried 313 82. Abbé du Resnel’s opinion 316 83. Crousaz attacks An Essay on Man 326 84. Dr Warburton replies to Crousaz 336 85. ‘A Hodge-Podge Mess of Philosophy’ 344 EPITAPH ON MR. GAY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY 345 86. Swift’s criticisms 346 IMITATIONS OF HORACE: SERM. I. ii (SOBER ADVICE FROM HORACE) 347 87. Thomas Bentley satirizes Pope 348 AN EPISTLE FROM MR. POPE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT 357 88. Three opinions 358 EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES: DIALOGUE II 360 89. Opinions of Aaron Hill and Swift 361 THE NEW DUNCIAD: AS IT WAS FOUND IN THE YEAR 1741 362 90. The reaction of Shenstone and Grey 363 91. Cibber’s story of Pope on the ‘Mount of Love’ 364 92. Fielding champions Pope 368 93. Richardson on The Dunciad (1742) 369 THE DUNCIAD IN FOUR BOOKS 371 94. ‘Orator’ Henley on The Dunciad (1743) 372 95. Richardson on The Dunciad (1744) 375 A FINAL TRIBUTE 376 96. An Elegy by a friend 377 Part II LATER CRITICISM 381 97. An early biographer’s assessment 382 98. Gray on Pope and virtue 387 99. Johnson on ‘Sound and Sense’ 388 100. Warburton as editorial commentator 390 101. Catherine Talbot on Pope 395 102 Cowper on Pope’s Homer 396 103. French praise for the Pastorals 397 104. A mid-century comparison of Pope and Dryden 398 105. Warton on Pope’s borrowings 402 106. Warton’s Essay, volume i 409 107. Johnson reviews Warton 438 108. Johnson on Pope’s Epitaphs 442 109. Voltaire on Pope as philosophe 451 110. Richardson on Pope’s lack of genius 452 111. Critical clichés of 1759 454 112. Young on Pope’s lack of originality 457 113 Algarotti on Pope 461 114 Johnson on Pope and ‘easy poetry’ 463 115 Pope and Boileau in conversation 465 116 An Edinburgh professor’s view 468 117 Lord Kames on Pope 470 118 Pope, Homer, and the nature of genius 477 119 A French imitator of The Dunciad 483 120 Pope, ‘The Last English Muse’ 485 121 Ruffhead replies to Warton 487 122 Johnson reviews Ruffhead 494 123 Thomas Warton on The Temple of Fame 496 124 Sound and sense in Pope again 497 125 Stockdale replies to Warton 500 126 William Cowper on Pope 504 127 Johnson on Pope 506 128. Warton’s Essay, volume ii 535 129. Hayley on Pope’s genius and his satire 548 130. Johnson on ‘whit’ 551 131. Vicesimus Knox on the two parties in English poetry 553 APPENDIX A Pope on versification 555 APPENDIX B ‘The Ballance of Poets’ 558 Bibliography 563 WORKS 563 REPUTATION 563 Index 565 I. POPE’S WORKS 565 II. CRITICS AND ANONYMOUS PIECES 566 III. IMPORTANT TOPICS AND COMPARISONS WITH OTHER WRITERS 568 The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. 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