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Herbert Read Collection1

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english poetry5
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latin poetry, medieval and modern2
english letters1
english literature1
irish poetry (in english)1
painters1
painting1
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Pope, Alexander67
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)67
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)9
Homer8
Warburton, William8
Warburton, William (1698-1779)8
Broome, William5
Broome, William (1689-1745)5
Fenton, Elijah5
Fenton, Elijah (1683-1730)5

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Scating: a poem

Frowde, Philip (1738); Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Newcomb, Thomas (1682?-1765)

1720

Scating was originally published in 1699 in Latin, as by Philip Frowde, but in the Preface (by T.N.) to this edition, it is attributed to Addison. Latin text, headed "Cursus glacialis", precedes Eng...

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A letter to Sir William Windham; II. Some reflections on the present state of the nation ; III. A letter to Mr. Pope

Bolingbroke, Henry St John Viscount (1678-1751); Wyndham, William Sir, bart (1687-1740); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

1753

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A letter from Mr. Cibber, to Mr. Pope : inquiring into the motives that might induce him in his satyrical works, to be so frequently fond of Mr. Cibber's name

Cibber, Colley (1671-1757); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

1742

Catchword on p. 39: -Si, at foot of title-page: "price 1s"; variant 1: catchword on p. 39: -S, at foot of title-page: "price 1s"; variant 2: catchword on p. 39: -S and title-page unpriced--ESTC. Wit...

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Court poems : Viz; I. The basset-table. An eclogue. II. The drawing-room. III. The toilet. Publish'd faithfully, as they were found in a pocket-book taken up in Westminster-Hall, the last day of the Lord Winton's tryal

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762); Gay, John (1685-1732); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

1706 [i.e. 1716]

First edition. Date on title-page misprinted 1706. Authorship attributed by "Advertisement" to "a lady of quality," Pope or Gay. Nos. I and II are now ascribed to Lady Mary; included in the ms. of...

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Cythereia : or, New poems upon love and intrigue...[etc]

Markland, Jeremiah (1693-1776); Curll, Edmund (1675-1747); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

1723

The collection was republished by Curll in 1727 as part of some copies of "The altar of love" (Case 340). The editorship has been variously attributed to "Jeremiah" [i.e. John] Markland or to Edmund...

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Poetical miscellanies : the sixth part. Containing a collection of original poems, with several new translations

Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Tonson, Jacob (1656?-1736); Dryden, John (1631-1700)

1709

Collected and edited by Jacob Tonson. Pagination highly irregular: Y6, Hh8, Mm3 are cancels. First edition, second variant; cf. Griffith 1, Wise, T., Pope library, p. 3-4; Macdonald, Dryden, but o...

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The art of painting

Du Fresnoy, Charles Alphonse (1611-1668); Dryden, John (1631-1700); Jarvis, Charles (1675?-1739); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Graham, Richard (fl. 1680-1720); Lintot, Bernard

1716

Parallel texts of du Fresnoy's Latin poem, 'De arte graphica', and Dryden's prose translation, modified by Charles Jervas. 'To Mr. Jervas, with Frensoy's [sic] Art of painting', in verse, is by Alex...

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Three hours after marriage : A comedy, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal

Gay, John (1685-1732); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735)

1717

First edition. Advertisement in which he acknowledges the assistance of two friends [Pope and Arbuthnot] signed: John Gay. "A complete key to the new farce, call'd Three hours after marriage... By...

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Three hours after marriage : A comedy, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal

Gay, John (1685-1732); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735)

1717

First edition. Advertisement in which he acknowledges the assistance of two friends [Pope and Arbuthnot] signed: John Gay. "A complete key to the new farce, call'd Three hours after marriage... By...

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Miscellaneous poems and translations

Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

1712

Editorship attributed to Pope and contains the first appearance of Pope's The rape of the locke. Often described as "Lintott's miscellany". Includes, together with six other pieces by Pope, the fi...

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Miscellaneous poems and translations

Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

1714

Cf. Griffith, R.H. Alexander Pope, a bibliography. Austin, 1922-27. v. 1., pt. 1, p. 32-33, no. 32. According to Griffith, the two leaves of Contents, the sigs. B-X (pp. 1-320), and the sigs. Aa-Bb ...

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An author to be lett : being a proposal humbly address'd to the consideration of the knights, esquires, gentlemen, and other worshipful and weighty members of the solid and Ancient Society of the Bathos

Savage, Richard (1743); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

1729

"Numb. I. To be continued." No more published. Pope is sometimes credited with portions of the work. Signatures: chi1 A-C⁴ (C4 blank and wanting). "Errata": p. [1] at end.

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