The Progress of Love. In Four Eclogues.

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Of The Progress of Love

George Lyttelton dedicated his four poems to beneficial acquaintances from Georgian Society; Alexander Pope, The Honourable George Doddington, Edward Walpole and Lord Cobham. The poems were circulated first in manuscript, amongst Lyttelton’s friends for suggested revisions. His friend, Alexander Pope contributed the final concluding upbeat couplet for ‘Uncertainty’ dedicated to himself;

“Back to his Flock more cheerful he return’d
When now the setting Sun less fiercly burn’d.
Blue vapours rose along the mazy Rills,
And Light’s last blushes ting’d the distant hills.”

Per Wikipedia:

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, PC (17 January 1709 – 22 August 1773), known between 1751 and 1756 as Sir George Lyttelton, 5th Baronet, was a British statesman. As an author himself, he was also the supporter of other writers and as a patron of the arts made an important contribution to the development of 18th century landscape design.

Lord Lyttelton was a friend and supporter of Alexander Pope in the 1730s and of Henry Fielding in the 1750s; the latter dedicated his novel Tom Jones to Lyttelton. He had written his “Epistle to Mr. Pope, from a young gentleman at Rome” while still on European tour, advising him to abandon satire for a patriotic theme more worthy of his greatness. Later on the poem was used to preface editions of Pope’s work.