Alexander Pope, Moral Essays

Ian Gordon (Anglia Ruskin University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.05: English Writing and Culture from the Glorious Revolution to the French Revolution, 1689-1789.
Vol. editors: Paul Baines (University of Liverpool), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Pat Rogers (University of South Florida), Nicholas Seager (University of Keele)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1735

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Didactic
Non-Fiction
- Essay Collection
Poem collection
Satire

Resources

“Moral Essays” is the title William Warburton first gave, in Volume III of his posthumous 1751 edition of The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. In Nine Volumes Complete, to four poems Pope himself referred to by various other titles that always contained the word “Epistle”. For this and other reasons that will become apparent as this article progresses, these poems will be found entered in this encyclopaedia under their separate epistolary titles. The poems were originally published as individual epistles addressed to particular friends. Pope then gathered the four poems together, with three other epistles, under the title “Ethic Epistles, the Second Book, To Several Persons” in The Works of Mr Alexander Pope, …

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Citation: Gordon, Ian. "Moral Essays". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 January 2002 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3487, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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