Front matter
‘WIT'S WILD DANCING LIGHT’
READING THE POEMS OF ALEXANDER POPE
WILLIAM HUTCHINGS
Contents
About the Author 1 A Note to the Text 3 Introduction 5 1. Pastorals 21 2. Sappho to Phaon 35 3. An Essay on Criticism 39 4. Windsor Forest 53 5. The Rape of the Lock 59 6. Epistle to Mr Jervas 79 7. Eloisa to Abelard 85 8. Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady 93 9. Homer, The Iliad 99 10. Epistle to Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer; To Mr Addison; Epitaph on James Craggs, Esq 113 11. An Essay on Man 121 12. An Epistle to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington 145 13. An Epistle to Allen, Lord Bathurst 155 14. An Epistle to Sir Richard Temple, Lord Cobham 165 15. Epistle to Miss Blount with the Works of Voiture; Epistle to Miss Blount,
on her Leaving the Town after the Coronation; An Epistle to a Lady 169 16. The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated 181
17. The Second Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated. To Mr Bethel 197
Index
203 207 217 221 229 239
245 257 267 293 299
About the Author
William Hutchings is an Honorary Research Fellow in English and American Studies at the University of Manchester. Previously, he was Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Director of the Centre for Excellence in Enquiry-Based Learning at the University of Manchester.
He is the author of The Poetry of William Cowper (1983), Living Poetry (2012), and Living Fiction (2014); and co-editor of Thomas Gray: Contemporary Essays (1993). Hutchings has published articles on, among others, William Collins, William Cowper, Sir John Denham, Thomas Gray, and James Thomson. In addition, he has published numerous articles on Enquiry-Based Learning. He has been lecturing to meetings of The Jane Austen Society for many years and is Patron of the Northern Branch.
A Note to the Text
Quotations are from the Oxford World’s Classics text, edited by Pat Rogers (2006), with further modernisation and supplementation by the Twickenham Edition, the earlier Oxford text edited by Herbert Davis (1966), and later excellent editions (Valerie Rumbold’s of The Dunciad (1999) and Tom Jones’s of An Essay on Man (2016)).
References in parentheses are to works listed in the Bibliography. Abbreviations: OED - Oxford English Dictionary
TE — The Twickenham Edition
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