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CONTENTS

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ENCOMIUMS ON POPE.....

1

Preface..........

15

Pastorals, with a Discourse on Pastoral Poetry 23

1. Spring, or Damon....

30

II. Summer, or Alexis.......

33

III. Autumn, or Hylas and Ægon.

36

IV. Winter, or Daphne...

39

Messiah.....

43

Windsor Forest,

51

The Rape of the Lock..........

64

Eloisa to Abelard......

91

Elegy to the Memory of an unfortunate Lady 102

Sappho to Phaon.......

105

Fable of Dryope......

113

Vertumpus and Pomona

116

The Thebais of Statius, Book I................... 120

Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato.. ............... : 146

Epilogue to Mr. Rowe's Jane Shore ............ 148