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Warton's Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope was one of the most influential critical works of the eighteenth century. Warton's sustained commentary on the most significant English poet of the century was read as both a promotion of Pope's literary genius, and an attack on it, and as such attracted strong opinion. At the same time its comparative critical method, drawing upon the... Read more
Volume 1 Joseph Warton, An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope: in Two Volumes, (London: J. Dodsley, 1782). Volume 1. Volume II Joseph Warton, An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope: in Two Volumes, (London: J. Dodsley, 1782). Volume 2. Volume III Textual Appendix Index to Warton's Essay Joseph Warton, Ranelagh House: a Satire in Prose, in the Manner of Monsieur Le Sage, (London: W. Owen, 1747). Robert Shiels, 'The Life of Alexander Pope' (1753), in Theophilus Cibber, The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, (London, 1753). Percival Stockdale , An Inquiry into the Nature, and Genuine Laws of Poetry (London, 1778). Joseph Weston, 'An Essay on the Superiority of Dryden's Versification over that of Pope, and of the Moderns' (1789), in W. K. R. Bedford, ed., Records of the Woodmen of Arden (Edinburgh: privately printed, 1885).
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Adam Rounce
