Principal Works
“Pastorals” (poetry) 1709; published in Poetical Miscellanies, vol. 6
An Essay on Criticism (poetry) 1711
“The Messiah” (poetry) 1712; published in journal The Spectator
The Rape of the Lock (poetry) 1712; enlarged edition, 1714
Windsor Forest (poetry) 1713
The Iliad of Homer. 6 vols. [translator] (poetry) 1715-20.
*“A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry” (criticism) 1717
*“Eloisa to Abelard” (poetry) 1717
*“Verses to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady” (poetry) 1717; also known as “Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady”
The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (poetry and criticism) 1717
The Odyssey of Homer. 5 vols. [translator] (poetry) 1725-26
The Works of Shakspear. 6 vols. [adaptor] (poetry) 1725
The Dunciad (poetry) 1728
“Peri Bathous; or, The Art of Sinking in Poetry” (criticism) 1728; published in Miscellanies, vol. 3
The Dunciad, Variorum. With the Prolegomena of Scriblerus (poetry) 1729
Epistles to Several Persons (poetry) 1731-35
Satires and Epistles of Horace, Imitated (poetry) 1733-37
An Essay on Man, Being the First Book of Ethic Epistles. To Henry St. John L. Bolingbroke (poetry) 1734
An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot (poetry) 1735
Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence for Thirty Years; from 1704 to 1734 (letters) 1735
Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope and Several of His Friends (letters) 1737
Epilogue to the Satires (poetry) 1738
Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus [With John Arbuthnot, John Gay, Thomas Parnell, and Jonathan Swift] (satire) 1737
The New Dunciad: As It Was Found in the Year 1741. With the Illustrations of Scriblerus, and Notes Variorum (poetry) 1742
The Dunciad, in Four Books (poetry) 1743
†Satires of Dr. Donne Versified (poetry) 1751
The Works of Alexander Pope. 9 vols. (poetry and criticism) 1751
The Correspondence of Alexander Pope (letters) 1956
*These works first appeared in the 1717 edition of The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope.
†This work first appeared in the 1751 edition of The Works of Alexander Pope.
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