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Books about Alexander Pope -- Books by Alexander Pope

Books about Alexander Pope:

• Pope's Horatian Poems (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1966), by Thomas E. Maresca (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Alexander Pope (London: Macmillan and Co., 1880), by Leslie Stephen (Gutenberg text)
• The Life of Pope, by Samuel Johnson (HTML at jacklynch.net)
• Five Types: A Book Of Essays (New York: H. Holt and Co.; London: A. L. Humphreys, 1911), by G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope, by Samuel Johnson (Gutenberg text)

• A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Pope (London: Chapman and Hall, 1875), by Edwin Abbott, contrib. by Edwin A. Abbott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Pope (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1875), by Edwin Abbott, contrib. by Edwin A. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Letter From Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope (Augustan Reprint Society publication #158; 1973), by Colley Cibber, contrib. by Helene Koon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope, by Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Gutenberg text)

• Shakespeare Restored: or, A Specimen of the Many Errors, as Well Committed, as Unamended, by Mr. Pope in His Late Edition of This Poet (London: Printed for R. Francklin et al., 1726), by Mr. Theobald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epic to Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1974), by Thomas E. Maresca (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Reach of Art: A Study in the Prosody of Pope (humanities monograph #16; Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, c1964), by Jacob H. Adler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Where Angels Fear to Tread: Descriptive Bibliography and Alexander Pope (Washington: Library of Congress, 1988), by David L. Vander Meulen (page images at HathiTrust)

Books by Alexander Pope:

• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, contrib.: An Account of the Conversion and Death of Poor Joseph; To Which Is Added, The Dying Christian's Address to His Soul (anonymous tract with Pope's poem at the end; Newcastle, UK: Printed by J. Marshall, ca. 1810) (multiple formats at archive.org; pages out of order)
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, contrib.: The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, Modernis'd by Several Hands (3 volumes in 1; London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1741), by Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. by George Ogle, also contrib. by John Urry, Thomas Betterton, John Dryden, Samuel Cobb, Samuel Boyse, Henry Brooke, Jeremiah Markland, and Mr. Grosvenor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744: An Essay on Criticism
  • HTML at jacklynch.net
  • Gutenberg text
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744: An Essay on Man: Being the First Book of Ethic Epistles to Henry St. John, L. Bolingbroke (London: Printed by J. Wright for L. Gilliver, 1734) (page images here at Penn)
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744: An Essay on Man, Moral Essays and Satires, contrib. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, trans.: The Iliad, by Homer, ed. by Theodore Alois Buckley, illust. by John Flaxman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, ed.: The Life and Death of King Lear (from The Works of William Shakespear; London: J. Tonson, 1728), by William Shakespeare (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, contrib.: The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise, by Peter Abelard and Héloïse, ed. by Israel Gollancz and Honnor Morten (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, ed.: The Merchant of Venice (London: Printed for J. Tonson et al., 1734), by William Shakespeare, illust. by Paul Fourdrinier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, trans.: Metamorphoses, by Ovid, ed. by Samuel Garth, also trans. by John Dryden, Joseph Addison, and William Congreve (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, trans.: The Odyssey of Homer, by Homer (Gutenberg text)
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, contrib.: Poems, Moral, Elegant and Pathetic (London: Printed for E. Newbery, 1801), also contrib. by Helen Maria Williams, Mr. Jerningham, Robert Blair, Thomas Gray, and Thomas Percy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, ed. by George Gilfillan
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744: The Rape of the Lock (HTML at jacklynch.net)
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744: The Rape of the Lock (annotated website delisted 15 Nov 2022; editor died in 2013)
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744: The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems (1906), ed. by Thomas Marc Parrott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744: Windsor-Forest (HTML at jacklynch.net)
• Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, ed.: The Works of Shakespear, in Six Volumes (London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1723-1725), by William Shakespeare, contrib. by Nicholas Rowe
  • Volume 1 (Comedies): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (Comedies): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (Historical Plays): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Historical Plays): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5 (Tragedies from History): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 6 (Tragedies from Fable): multiple formats at archive.org

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