Note 262 — Chapter II · INDICATIONS OF A NEW ATTITUDE TOWARD NATURE IN THE POETRY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
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(a) Description of moonshine walk. (This letter, perhaps a sincere expression when first written (1713), was a favorite of Pope’s. When he published his “Letters” he made an amusing blunder by transferring this passage to a letter dated February 10, 1715, at which time the park where he was supposed to have watched the moonshine and reflected on mortality, was under water from the great flood of February 9; see “Letters,” I, 367.)
(b) “Pleasure in Birds,” etc., I, 338.
(c) “Twickenham in Spring,” IV, 72, 74.
(d) “Autumn,” IV, 89.