. The complete poetical works of Alexander Pope . 0 014 430 141 9 %. / Awt 2 i 3 2 * 3 /AEDITORS NOTE An attempt has been here made for the first time to include all of Popes poeticalwork within the limits of a single volume ; and to print the poems in an approxi-mately chronological order. It has been often difficult, and sometimes impossible,to determine the exact date of a given poem; and the known order of compositionhas been modified so far as to permit a method of grouping the shorter poemswhich has been followed in other volumes of this series. Only the twelve books ofthe Odyssey which
. The complete poetical works of Alexander Pope . 0 014 430 141 9 %. / Awt 2 i 3 2 * 3 /AEDITORS NOTE An attempt has been here made for the first time to include all of Popes poeticalwork within the limits of a single volume ; and to print the poems in an approxi-mately chronological order. It has been often difficult, and sometimes impossible,to determine the exact date of a given poem; and the known order of compositionhas been modified so far as to permit a method of grouping the shorter poemswhich has been followed in other volumes of this series. Only the twelve books ofthe Odyssey which were Popes own work are here included, and all of the notesto Homer are omitted. Most of Popes own notes to the poems have been retained,except in the case of certain notes on The Dunciad, which are so voluminous or sotrivial as to find no proper place within the necessary limits of this edition. The allusions to Popes contemporaries are so numerous, particularly in theSatires, the Moral Essays, and The Dunciad, that it has seemed advisable to ridthe main body of
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