One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight. Dialogue II. By Mr. Pope.

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Alexander Pope,

One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight. Dialogue II. By Mr. Pope.

London: Printed for R. Dodsley. 1738.

Pope's most ringing indictment of “that insuperable corruption and depravity of manners, which he had been so unhappy as to live to see” in Hanoverian England in the 1730s.

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Pope's most ringing indictment of “that insuperable corruption and depravity of manners, which he had been so unhappy as to live to see” in Hanoverian England in the 1730s.

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Pope’s most ringing indictment of “that insuperable corruption and depravity of manners, which he had been so unhappy as to live to see” in Hanoverian England in the 1730s.

The volume(s) measure about cm. by cm. by cm.

Each leaf measures about 335 mm. by 228 mm.

The full title reads:

One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight. Dialogue II. By Mr. Pope. London: Printed for R. Dodsley at Tully’s Head in Pall-Mall, MDCCXXXVIII. [1738] (Price One Shilling.)

The volume is paginated as follows: 16 p.

The volume collates as follows (A)2 – D2

First Edition, Second State, with “Fools” corrected to “Tools” on the last line of Pg. 10.

ESTC: T5724, Foxon P938, Griffith 494

The Volume is in Very good Condition disbound, with generally clean, well margined leaves, some mild general toning.

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On 16 May 1738, Pope published One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight: A Dialogue Something Like Horace. Two months later he published its sequel One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight: Dialogue II.

These two poems, known together, since The Works of Alexander Pope, Vol. II, Part II, 1740, as the Epilogue to the Satires: Dialogues I & II, constitute Pope’s most ringing indictment of “that insuperable corruption and depravity of manners, which he had been so unhappy as to live to see” in Hanoverian England in the 1730s. The two poems continue the style of the Imitations of Horace, written during the previous five years, but, unlike them, are not based on any single Horatian original. …

Citation: Gordon, Ian. “Epilogue to the Satires: Dialogues I & II”.

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