Alexander Pope, An Epistle to Bathurst

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 1733 - 1744

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Epistolary
Poetry (any)

Resources

Pope's Of The Use of Riches, An Epistle To the Right Honourable Allen Lord Bathurst was first published on 15 January 1733, just over a year after its companion epistle on false taste addressed to the Earl of Burlington. Pope revised the epistle for the edition of his collected Works, Vol. II, published on 23 April 1735, adding six lines and writing out the names in full of those persons whose identity was partly disguised by blanks instead of vowels in the first edition. As with the Epistle to Burlington, Pope went on making small changes to the poem right up to the suppressed “death-bed” edition of Epistles to Several Persons printed in 1744. This text forms the basis of the Twickenham edition of the

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Citation: Gordon, Ian. "An Epistle to Bathurst". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 January 2002 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6680, accessed 20 May 2024.]

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