Volume 3 / Book 3 — BOOK III.—THE CLASSIC AGE (Continued)
Henri Van Laun translation
BOOK III.—THE CLASSIC AGE (Continued)
CHAPTER SEVENTH The Poets
Section I.—The Domination of the Classical Spirit 3 Section II.—Alexander Pope.—His Education and Mode of Life 5 Section III.—Eloisa to Abelard.—The Rape of the Lock.—The Dunciad 10 Section IV.—Pope's Descriptive Talent.—His Didactic Poems 19 Section V.—The Poets Prior, Gay, and Thomson 28 Section VI.—The Beginnings of the Modern Age 34