Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION -- INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION -- Dedication -- PART ONE: THE POET IN HIS SETTING -- Chronological table -- 1 ALEXANDER POPE, THE MAN AND HIS LIFE -- Early life and education, 1688-1708 -- The experimenting poet, 1709-1717 -- Translator and editor, 1718-1725 -- The Scriblerian fruition, 1726-1733 -- The English Horace, 1733-1744 -- Epitaph -- 2 THE URBAN AND RURAL SETTING -- The City of London and the moneyed men -- The City of Westminster and the Court -- Grub Street and the war with the Dunces -- The country and retirement -- 3 THE KINDRED ARTS -- Architecture -- Landscape gardening -- Painting -- Sculpture -- Music -- 4 AUGUSTAN LITERARY TENETS -- The kinds -- Decorum -- The rules -- Wit -- Imitation -- Satire -- 5 POPE'S BELIEFS -- Philosophy -- Religion -- Politics -- PART TWO: CRITICAL SURVEY -- The closed heroic couplet -- An Essay on Criticism -- Windsor-Forest -- The Rape of the Lock -- Eloisa to Abelard -- Epistle to Burlington -- An Essay on Man -- An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot -- Epilogue to the Satires -- The Dunciad -- PART THREE: REFERENCE SECTION -- Glossary of technical terms used in discussing Pope's poetry -- Gazetteer of place names in eighteenth-century London relevant to Pope's poetry -- Short biographies -- Bibliography -- GENERAL INDEX -- INDEX TO POPE'S WORKS