Warburton, William | Robert W. Rogers (essay date 1955)
Robert W. Rogers (essay date 1955)
SOURCE: Rogers, Robert W. “Warburton and the Later Satiric Mode.” In The Major Satires of Alexander Pope, pp. 94-114. Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 1955.
[In the following excerpt, Rogers explores Warburton's relationship with Alexander Pope and considers his influence on Pope's later works.]
Judged in terms of creativity, Pope's last years were not a period of great accomplishment; they were largely devoted to the preparation and ordering of final versions of his poems. The important achievement of these years was a recasting of the Dunciad; but Pope also brought out his letters to Swift and prepared the Memoirs of Scriblerus for publication. For the most part he polished and arranged what had already been published: the Essay on Man was altered in order to soften the fatalistic implications of the original argument; and some changes were made in the Ethic...
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