Pastorals (Pope)
Appearance
Pastorals | |
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by Alexander Pope | |
Rhyme scheme | Heroic couplet |
Metre | Iambic pentameter |
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Pastorals (Pope) at Wikisource |
Pastorals were some of the first poetical works of Alexander Pope to appear in print, when they were published in the sixth part of Jacob Tonson's Poetical Miscellanies on 2 May 1709.[1][2] However, the Pastorals had been written earlier, in 1704, when the author was sixteen.[1]
References
[edit]Sources
[edit]- Gordon, Ian (11 March 2003). "Pastorals". The Literary Encyclopedia. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
- "Pastorals | work by Pope". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
Further reading
[edit]- Durant, David S. (1971). "Man and Nature in Alexander Pope's Pastorals". Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 11(3): pp. 469–485.