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Donated to our Friends of the Library group by a patron, NOT Ex-library. Save 50% or more off AbeBooks prices by buying our set! TITLE, PUBLICATION, CONDITION: The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. , In Nine Volumes Complete. With his last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; As they were delivered to the Editor a little before his death: Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton London, MDCCLI (1751) Printed for H. Lintot, J. and R. Ronson and S. Draper This 9-volume set is tightly bound and has extra writing on two pages of volume one only. No highlighting or underlining. Cover wear as can be seen in photos. Some discoloring on some pages due to age. Minor repair on end plate of volume one. Alexander Pope 1688-1744 Alexander Pope (born May 21, 1688, London, England—died May 30, 1744, Twickenham, near London) was a poet and satirist of the English Augustan period, best known for his poems An Essay on Criticism (1711), The Rape of the Lock (1712–14), The Dunciad (1728), and An Essay on Man (1733–34). He is one of the most epigrammatic of all English authors. Pope’s father, a wholesale linen merchant, retired from business in the year of his son’s birth and in 1700 went to live at Binfield in Windsor Forest. The Popes were Roman Catholics, and at Binfield they came to know several neighboring Catholic families who were to play an important part in the poet’s life. Pope’s religion procured him some lifelong friends, notably the wealthy squire John Caryll (who persuaded him to write The Rape of the Lock, on an incident involving Caryll’s relatives) and Martha Blount, to whom Pope addressed some of the most memorable of his poems and to whom he bequeathed most of his property. But his religion also precluded him from a formal course of education, since Catholics were not admitted to the universities. He was trained at home by Catholic priests for a short time and attended Catholic schools at Twyford, near Winchester, and at Hyde Park Corner, London, but he was mainly self-educated. He was a precocious boy, eagerly reading Latin, Greek, French, and Italian, which he managed to teach himself, and an incessant scribbler, turning out verse upon verse in imitation of the poets he read. The best of these early writings are the “Ode on Solitude” and a paraphrase of St. Thomas à Kempis, both of which he claimed to have written at age 12. WAIT...There's More... Be sure to mark PikesPeakLibraryFriends as a favorite seller!! You'll be notified of more great items like this as soon as they become available. Please carefully examine our photos as they provide an integral part of our condition description. We are happy to provide more pictures upon request. Your purchase helps our nonprofit 501(c)3 organization support the programs, events and staff of our award-winning local public library district. Thank you! We ship on the same or next business day upon receipt of payment. ****Friends nameplate not included*** Shelf B