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There followed a series of highly assured poems in a wide variety of forms, by which Pope asserted his claim to be a ‘new classic’: the Essay on Criticism (1711), two versions of the Rape of the Lock (1712–14), Windsor Forest (1713), the Temple of Fame (1715), and Eloisa to Abelard — which made its first appearance in the proud young poet’s new collection, the Works of 1717. At the same time, Pope was making a major translation of Homer’s Iliad; a work so significant for his literary life, that it deserves a chapter to itself.
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Rosslyn, F. (1990). Out in the World. In: Alexander Pope. Literary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20564-6_3
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