The Last and Greatest Art: Some Unpublished Poetical Manuscripts of Alexander PopeContains facsimiles of the manuscripts and transcriptions of each page of the Pastorals, Sappho to Phaon, and the Epistle to Jervas, among others. The collations made by Jonathan Richardson, Jr., from the lost manuscripts of the early Dunciad are included. All texts are fully annotated. |
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Page 190
... epistle form . We know from Spence that at a very early stage ( May 1730 ) the poem was to have been complete in one epistle , and while the manuscripts offer no clues to this first phase , the " Finis " following Epistle II in the ...
... epistle form . We know from Spence that at a very early stage ( May 1730 ) the poem was to have been complete in one epistle , and while the manuscripts offer no clues to this first phase , the " Finis " following Epistle II in the ...
Page 198
... Epistle III in which we first met with it in the Morgan manuscript- naturally enough , since no Epistle IV had yet been thought of - and the whole passage was set down as the last paragraph but one of the epistle . But then came the ...
... Epistle III in which we first met with it in the Morgan manuscript- naturally enough , since no Epistle IV had yet been thought of - and the whole passage was set down as the last paragraph but one of the epistle . But then came the ...
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... epistle is contained in a gray - blue paper wrapper . Epistle I consists of seven leaves measur- ing 8 % in . by 7/16 in . Leaf 1 is a cover leaf , the text beginning on leaf 2 , recto , and ending on leaf 7 , recto ( verso , blank ) .
... epistle is contained in a gray - blue paper wrapper . Epistle I consists of seven leaves measur- ing 8 % in . by 7/16 in . Leaf 1 is a cover leaf , the text beginning on leaf 2 , recto , and ending on leaf 7 , recto ( verso , blank ) .
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