THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

ALEXANDER POPE.



_With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes_,

BY THE

REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN.



VOL. II.

M.DCCC.LVI.




THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE.


Few poets during their lifetime have been at once so much admired and so
much abused as Pope. Some writers, destined to oblivion in after-ages,