Pope's and other poemsedited with introduction and notes by Thomas Marc Parrott this edition 1906 | ![]() |
It has been the aim of the editor in preparing this little book to gettogether sufficient material to afford a student in one of our highschools or colleges adequate and typical specimens of the vigorous andversatile genius of Alexander Pope. With this purpose he has included inaddition to
The Rape of the Lock
, the
Essay on Criticism
as furnishing the standard by which Pope himself expected his work to bejudged, the
First Epistle
of the
Essay on Man
as acharacteristic example of his didactic poe