I. The Occasional Self: Pope's Minor Verse

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Illustrations xi
5. Introduction: Imitation and Commerce 1
6. I. The Occasional Self: Pope's Minor Verse 15
7. II. Civilized Reading: The Act of Judgment In An Essay on Criticism 47
8. III. The Aesthetics of Revision in The Rape of the Lock 75
9. IV. Virgilian Attitudes in Windsor-Forest 103
10. V. “The Visionary Maid”: Tragic Passion and Redemptive Sympathy in “Eloisa to Abelard” 131
11. VI. Rereading Pope: Language and Vision in An Essay on Man 152
12. VII. Property, Character, and Money in the Moral Essays 179
13. VIII. The Muse of Pain: An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot and Satiric Reprisal 214
14. IX. Politics, Time, and Deformity: Epilogue to the Satires 241
15. X. The Kinship of Madness in The Dunciad 270
16. Conclusion: The Poet as Man of Sense 296
17. Notes 323
18. Index 361