Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Vol. 1 of 4: Memoir of Pope, With Extracts From His Correspondence
The present volumes are designed to supply what the Publishers conceived to be wanting in our poetical litera ture - an edition of pope that should contain the latest biographical information, and occupy a middle place be tween the elaborate and expensive annotated editions of Warton, Bowles, and Roscoe, and those ordinary reprints in which no attempt is made to illustrate the text, and from which most of the author's own notes are excluded. It must be admitted that facilities now exist for accomplishing such a work, which were not accessible even when Mr. Roscoe undertook his editorial labours. The publication of family papers has of late years thrown much light on the domestic history of this period, and most of them contain direct reference to Pope and his friends. Among these may be mentioned the Suffolk correspondence, the Marchmont papers, Lord Wharnclifi'e's edition of the works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, part of Horace Walpole's unri valled collection of letters, the correspondence of Lyttelton and' Chesterfield, and Lord Hervey's Memoirs of the Reign of George II.
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