Chronological Table

1688 Pope born (21 May)

1709 Pastorals

1711 An Essay on Criticism

1712 Messiah
     The Rape of the Locke (2 canto verison)

1713 Windsor Forest

1714 The Rape of the Lock (revised; 5 canto version)

1715 Temple of Fame
     Key to the Lock
     Iliad (translation; Vols. I-VI published between 1715-1720)

1717 Works. Includes The Rape of the Lock (with Clarissa's speech in Canto V) and Eloisa to Abelard

1725 Edition of Shakespeare
     Odyssey (Vols. I-III)

1726 Odyssey (Vols. IV-V)

1727-8 Pope-Swift Miscellanies

1728 Peri Bathous
     The first Dunciad (3 books, Theobald as hero)

1729 Dunciad Variorum

1731 Epistle to Burlington (Moral Essay IV)

1733 Epistle to Bathurst (Moral Essay III)
     First Imitation of Horace (Others 1734-8)
     An Essay of Man (Epistles I-III)

1734 Epistle to Cobham (Moral Essay I)
     Essay on Man (Epistle IV)

1735 Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
     Epistle to a Lady (Moral Essay II)

1742 New Dunciad (i.e., Book IV)

1743 Dunciad (4 books, Cibber as hero)

1744 Pope dies (30 May)



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