| Early Poems |
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Ode on Solitude |
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A Paraphrase (On Thomas à Kempis) |
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To the Author of a Poem Entitled Successio |
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The First Book of Statius’s Thebais |
| Imitations of English Poets |
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Chaucer |
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Spenser: The Alley |
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Waller: On a Lady Singing to Her Lute |
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Waller: On a Fan of the Author’s Design |
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Cowley: The Garden |
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Cowley: Weeping |
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Earl of Rochester: On Silence |
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Earl of Dorset: Artemisia |
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Earl of Dorset: Phryne |
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Dr. Swift: The Happy Life of a Country Parson |
| Pastorals |
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Discourse on Pastoral Poetry |
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Spring; or, Damon |
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Summer; or, Alexis |
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Autumn; or, Hylas and Ægon |
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Winter; or, Daphne |
| Windsor Forest |
| Paraphrases from Chaucer |
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January and May; or, The Merchant’s Tale |
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The Wife of Bath |
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The Temple of Fame |
| Translations from Ovid |
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Sappho to Phaon |
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The Fable of Dryope |
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Vertumnus and Pomona |
| An Essay on Criticism |
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Part I |
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Part II |
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Part III |
| Poems: 1708–12 |
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Ode for Music on St. Cecilia’s Day |
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Argus |
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The Balance of Europe |
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The Translator |
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On Mrs. Tofts, a Famous Opera-Singer |
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Epistle to Mrs. Blount, with the Works of Voiture |
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The Dying Christian to His Soul |
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Epistle to Mr. Jervas |
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Impromptu to Lady Winchilsea |
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Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady |
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Messiah |
| The Rape of the Lock |
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Canto I |
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Canto II |
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Canto III |
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Canto IV |
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Canto V |
| Poems: 1713–17 |
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Prologue to Mr. Addison’s Cato |
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Epilogue to Mr. Rowe’s Jane Shore |
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To a Lady, with the Temple of Fame |
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Upon the Duke of Marlborough’s House at Woodstock |
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Lines to Lord Bathurst |
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Macer |
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Epistle to Mrs. Teresa Blount |
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Lines Occasioned by Some Verses of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham |
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A Farewell to London |
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Imitation of Martial |
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Imitation of Tibullus |
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The Basset-Table |
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Epigram on the Toasts of the Kit-Cat Club |
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The Challenge |
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The Looking-Glass |
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Prologue Designed for Mr. D’Urfey’s Last Play |
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Prologue to the ‘Three Hours after Marriage’ |
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Prayer of Brutus |
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To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
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Extemporaneous Lines |
| Eloisa to Abelard |
| Poems: 1718–27 |
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An Inscription upon a Punch-Bowl |
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Epistle to James Craggs, Esq. |
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A Dialogue |
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Verses to Mr. C. |
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To Mr. Gay |
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On Drawings of the Statues of Apollo, Venus, and Hercules |
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Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer |
| Two Choruses to the Tragedy of Brutus |
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Chorus of Athenians |
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Chorus of Youths and Virgins |
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To Mrs. M. B. on Her Birthday |
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Answer to the Following Question of Mrs. Howe |
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On a Certain Lady at Court |
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To Mr. John Moore |
| The Curll Miscellanies |
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Umbra |
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Bishop Hough |
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Sandys’ Ghost |
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Epitaph |
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The Three Gentle Shepherds |
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On the Countess of Burlington Cutting Paper |
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Epigram: An Empty House |
| Poems Suggested by Gulliver |
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Ode to Quinbus Flestrin |
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The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch for the Loss of Grildrig |
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To Mr. Lemuel Gulliver |
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Mary Gulliver to Captain Lemuel Gulliver |
| Later Poems |
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On Certain Ladies |
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Celia |
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Prologue (To a Play for Mr. Dennis’s Benefit) |
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Song, by a Person of Quality |
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Verses Left by Mr. Pope |
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On His Grotto at Twickenham |
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On Receiving from the Right Hon. the Lady Frances Shirley a Standish and Two Pens |
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On Beaufort House Gate at Chiswick |
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To Mr. Thomas Southern |
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Epigram (“My Lord complains”) |
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Epigram (“Yes! ’t is the time”) |
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1740: A Poem |
| Poems of Uncertain Date |
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To Erinna |
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Lines Written in Windsor Forest |
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Verbatim from Boileau |
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Lines on Swift’s Ancestors |
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On Seeing the Ladies at Crux Easton Walk in the Woods by the Grotto |
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Inscription on a Grotto, the Work of Nine Ladies |
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To the Right Hon. the Earl of Oxford |
| Epigrams and Epitaphs |
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On a Picture of Queen Caroline |
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Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness |
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Lines Written in Evelyn’s Book on Coins |
| From the Grub-Street Journal |
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Epigram (“Did Milton’s prose”) |
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Epigram (“Should D[enni]s print”) |
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Mr. J. M. S[myth]e |
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Epigram on Mr. M[oo]re’s Going to Law with Mr. Giliver |
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Epigram (“A gold watch found”) |
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Epitaph on James Moore-Smythe |
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A Question by Anonymous |
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Epigram (“Great G[eorge]”) |
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Epigram (“Behold! ambitious”) |
| Epitaphs |
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On Charles, Earl of Dorset |
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On Sir William Trumbull |
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On the Hon. Simon Harcourt |
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On James Craggs, Esq. |
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On Mr. Rowe |
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On Mrs. Corbet |
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On the Monument of the Hon. R. Digby and of His Sister Mary |
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On Sir Godfrey Kneller |
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On General Henry Withers |
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On Mr. Elijah Fenton |
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On Mr. Gay |
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Intended for Sir Isaac Newton |
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On Dr. Francis Atterbury |
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On Edmund, Duke of Buckingham |
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For One Who Would Not Be Buried in Westminster Abbey |
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Another on the Same |
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On Two Lovers Struck Dead by Lightning |
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On John Gay |
| An Essay on Man |
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Epistle I. Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to the Universe |
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Epistle II. Of the Nature and State of Man with Respect to Himself As an Individual |
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Epistle III. Of the Nature and State of Man with Respect to Society |
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Epistle IV. Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to Happiness |
| Moral Essays |
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Epistle I. Of the Knowledge and Characters of Men |
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Epistle II. Of the Characters of Women |
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Epistle III. Of the Use of Riches |
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Epistle IV. Of the Use of Riches |
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Epistle V. To Mr. Addison, Occasioned by His Dialogues on Medals |
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Universal Prayer |
| Satires |
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Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot |
| Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace Imitated |
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The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace |
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The Second Satire of the Second Book of Horace |
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The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace |
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The Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace |
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The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace |
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The Second Epistle of the Second Book of Horace |
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Satires of Dr. John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s, Versified |
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Epilogue to the Satires |
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The Sixth Satire of the Second Book of Horace |
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The Seventh Epistle of the First Book of Horace |
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The First Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace |
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The Ninth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace |
| The Dunciad |
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Front Matter |
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Book I |
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Book II |
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Book III |
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Book IV |
| Translations from Homer |
| The Iliad |
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Pope’s Preface |
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Book I. The Contention of Achilles and Agamemnon |
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Book II. The Trial of the Army and Catalogue of the Forces |
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Book III. The Duel of Menelaus and Paris |
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Book IV. The Breach of the Truce, and the First Battle |
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Book V. The Acts of Diomed |
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Book VI. The Episodes of Glaucus and Diomed, and of Hector and Andromache |
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Book VII. The Single Combat of Hector and Ajax |
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Book VIII. The Second Battle, and the Distress of the Greeks |
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Book IX. The Embassy to Achilles |
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Book X. The Night Adventure of Diomede and Ulysses |
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Book XI. The Third Battle, and the Acts of Agamemnon |
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Book XII. The Battle at the Grecian Wall |
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Book XIII. The Fourth Battle Continued, in Which Neptune Assists the Greeks. The Acts of Idomeneus |
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Book XIV. Juno Deceives Jupiter by the Girdle of Venus |
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Book XV. The Fifth Battle, at the Ships; and the Acts of Ajax |
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Book XVI. The Sixth Battle: The Acts and Death of Patroclus |
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Book XVII. The Seventh Battle, for the Body of Patroclus.—The Acts of Menelaus |
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Book XVIII. The Grief of Achilles, and New Armour Made Him by Vulcan |
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Book XIX. The Reconciliation of Achilles and Agamemnon |
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Book XX. The Battle of the Gods, and the Acts of Achilles |
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Book XXI. The Battle in the River Scamander |
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Book XXII. The Death of Hector |
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Book XXIII. Funeral Games in Honour of Patroclus |
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Book XXIV. The Redemption of the Body of Hector |
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Pope’s Concluding Note |
| The Odyssey (partial) |
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Book III. The Interview of Telemachus and Nestor |
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Book V. The Departure of Ulysses from Calypso |
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Book VII. The Court of Alcinoüs |
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Book IX. The Adventures of the Cicons, Lotophagi, and Cyclops |
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Book X. Adventures with Æolus, the Læstrygons, and Circe |
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Book XIII. The Arrival of Ulysses in Ithaca |
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Book XIV. The Conversation with Eumæus |
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Book XV. The Return of Telemachus |
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Book XVII |
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Book XXI. The Bending of Ulysses’ Bow |
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Book XXII. The Death of the Suitors |
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Book XXIV |
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Postscript by Pope |
| Appendix |
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A. A Glossary of Names of Pope’s Contemporaries Mentioned in the Poems |
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B. Notes and Illustrations |
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C. Bibliographical Note |
