Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. THE WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE. NEW EDITION. INCLUDING SEVERAL HUNDRED UNPUBLISHED LETTERS, AND OTHER NEW MATERIALS. COLLECTED IN PART BY THE LATE R'T. HON. JOHN WILSON CROKER. WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES. BY REV. WHITWELL ELWIN. VOL. I. POETRY.--VOL. I. WITH PORTRAITS AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1871. [_The right of Translation is reserved._] LONDON: BRADBURY, EVANS, AND CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME OF POETRY. PAGE CATALOGUE OF POPE'S COLLECTED EDITIONS OF HIS WORKS vii POPE'S MEMORIAL LIST OF RELATIONS AND FRIENDS ix ADVERTISEMENT OF WARBURTON TO HIS EDITION OF POPE'S WORKS xi INTRODUCTION xv THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE 1 RECOMMENDATORY POEMS 17 TRANSLATIONS 37 THE FIRST BOOK OF STATIUS'S THEBAIS 41 SAPPHO TO PHAON FROM OVID 87 THE FABLE OF DRYOPE FROM OVID 104 VERTUMNUS AND POMONA FROM OVID 108 JANUARY AND MAY, FROM CHAUCER 113 THE WIFE OF BATH, FROM CHAUCER 155 THE TEMPLE OF FAME 185 PASTORALS 231 DISCOURSE OF PASTORAL POETRY 257 1. SPRING, TO SIR WILLIAM TRUMBULL 265 2. SUMMER TO DR. GARTH 276 3. AUTUMN TO MR. WYCHERLEY 285 4. WINTER, TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. TEMPEST 292 MESSIAH, A SACRED ECLOGUE 301 WINDSOR FOREST 319 CATALOGUE OF POPE'S COLLECTED EDITIONS OF HIS WORKS. The Works of Mr. ALEXANDER POPE. London: Printed by W. BOWYER for BERNARD LINTOT, between the Temple Gates, 1717. 4to and folio. This volume consists of all the acknowledged poems which Pope had hitherto published, with the addition of some new pieces. The Works of Mr. ALEXANDER POPE. Volume ii. London: Printed by J. WRIGHT, for LAWTON GILLIVER, at Homer's Head in Fleet Street, 1735. 4to and folio. The volume of 1735 contains, with a few exceptions, the poems which Pope had printed since 1717. The pages of each group of pieces--Epistles, Satires, Epitaphs, etc.--are numbered separately, and there are other irregularities in the numbers, arising from a change in the order of the Moral Essays after the sheets were struck off.