The Works of Alexander Pope

CONTENTS

II. The same to the same. On the real wants of

life; and on Gay's being appointed secre-

tary to the Duchess of Monmouth

III. Mr. Rowe to Mr. Pope. An invitation to

dinner

IV. Mr. Pope to Mr. Gay. On his proficiency in
painting, and on Gay's Poem of the Fan
V. Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift. Proposes to change

his religion, and explains upon what terms
VI. Dean Berkeley to Mr. Pope, from Leghorn.
Commendation of the Rape of the Lock;
invites him to visit Italy

VII. Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift. Speculations on
Swift's retirement into the country; Scrib-
lerus; Homer

VIII. Mr. Gay to Dr. Swift. Acknowledgment on
his appointment as Secretary to Hanover,
and particulars respecting the embassy

IX. Dr. Arbuthnot to Mr. Pope. On the change

in administration after the queen's death;

progress of Scriblerus; character of Swift

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X. Mr. Pope to Mr. Gay. Welcome from Hano-
ver; invites him to Bath to meet Dr. Par-
nelle

XI. Mr. Pope to Dr. Parnelle. Entreating him to
return from London to Binfield to assist

him in his Homer

XII. Mr. Pope to Mr. Gay. Serious effects pro-
duced by the study of Homer.

XIII. Mr. Pope to Mr. Gay. Written in illness;
new plan of criticism; Gay's Fan

XIV. Mr. Pope to Mr. Congreve. On his own tem-
per; his feelings on the publication of Ho-

mer

XV. The same to the same.

On Gay's What-ď'ye-

call-it; on Sir Richard Steele's political

conduct
XVI. Mr. Gay and Mr. Pope to Mr. Congreve.
Character of Mr. Tetcombe; Pope's Ho-
mer; Key to the What-d'ye-call-it; Pope
lives like a rake

XVII. Mr. Pope and Mr. Gay to Dr. Parnelle. The
life of Zoilus; new publications; proposal

to meet at Bath

XVIII. Mr. Jervas, Dr. Arbuthnot, and Mr. Pope,
to Dr. Parnelle.

Jervas's pictures; Par-

nelle's translations; Gay's Trivia; Battle of

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of his great political friends; criticism on

Pope's Homer; account of his household

XX. Dr. Parnelle to Mr. Pope. Life of Zoilus;

Tickell's Homer, mistakes in it

XXI. Dr. Berkley to Mr. Pope. Opinions on

Pope's Homer

Letter

Page

XXII. Mr. Gay to Mr. Pope.

XXIII. Dr. Arbuthnot to Mr.

Homer

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Pope on Tickell's

XXIV. Mr. Gay to Mr. Pope. The Three Hours

after Marriage, damned on the represen-

tation

XXV. Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift. A scandalous imi-
tation of one of the Psalms of David im-
puted to him; Churches of Rome and of

'. England

XXVI. Mr. Pope to Dr. Parnelle. Complains of

his silence; invitation to accompany Dr.

Swift to England

XXVII. Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. Mr. Pope's poli-
tics; his enemies; poisoning of Edmund
Curll; Quaker verses; new Pastorals

XXVIII. Mr. Pope to. Dr. Parnelle. Remembrance

of him; life of Zoilus; intends to pub-

lish his own poems .

XXIX. Dean Berkley to Mr. Pope, from Naples.
Description of the island Inarime; Sal-

vini reading Pope's Homer

XXX. Mr. Pope to Mr. Gay. The death of his
father. Complains of Gay's silence

XXXI. Mr. Gay to Mr. Fortescue. Account of the
Death of John Hewet and Sarah Drew
by lightning, at Stanton-Harcourt. (The
same circumstance is related by Pope to
Miss Blount, and also to Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu, nearly in the same
terms.)

XXXII. Mr. Pope to Mr. Fenton. On Mr. Fenton's

engaging to reside with Mr. Craggs

XXXIII. Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. Long letter con-
taining Dr. Swift's political creed, in
which he maintains his attachment to
Whig principles, and defends his con-

duct to the Whigs when his Tory
friends were in power

(This letter Pope said he never received,

nor did he believe it was ever sent.)

XXXIV. Mr. Pope to Dr. Berkley. Invitation to

Twickenham

XXXV. Mr. Pope to Mr. Gay. On Gay's illness,

and his own anxiety for his mother

XXXVI. The same to the same. On the same sub-