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Reading
- Pastorals
- Eloisa to Abelard
- The Rape of the Lock
- Windsor Forest
- The Prologue to the Satires (nee Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot)
- An Essay on Criticism
- Essay on Man
- The Dunciad
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Commentaries
See the Twickenham edition of his poems (7 vol., 1951–61); his prose works ed. by N. Ault (1936, repr. 1968); his letters ed. by G. Sherburn (5 vol., 1956); biographies by G. Sherburn (1934, repr. 1963), N. Ault (1949, repr. 1967), P. Quennell (1968), and M. Maynard (1988); studies by G. Tillotson (1946; 2d ed. 1950; and 1958), F. W. Bateson and N. A. Joukovsky, ed. (1972), J. P. Russo (1972), P. Dixon, ed. (1973), F. M. Keener (1974), D. B. Morris (1984), L. Damrosch, Jr. (1987), and R. A. Brower (1986).
Quotations
"A little learning is a dang'rous thing" (from the Essay on Criticism);
"To err is human, to forgive, divine" (ibid.);
"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread" (ibid);
"The proper study of mankind is man" (Essay on Man).