Pope have been discussed in a literature more voluminous than that which exists in the case of almost any other English man of letters .biographer, however, has produced a definitive or exhaustive work It seems therefore desirable to indicate the main authorities upon which such a biographer would have to rely, and which have been consulted for the purpose of the following necessarily brief and imperil sketch. ,i -L The first life of Pope was a catchpenny book, by William A yre, published in 1745, and remarkable chiefly as givin the first version of some demonstrably erroneous statements, unfortunately adopted by later writers I i 1751 Warburton, as Popes literary executor, published the authoritative edition of the poets works with notes containing some biographical matter. In 1769 appeared a life by Owen Ruff head, who wrote under Warburton sinspiration. This is a dull and meagre performance, and much of it is devoted to an attack-partly written by Warburton himself upon the criticisms advanced in the fi volume of Joseph Warton s Essay on Pope. Warton sfirst volume was published in 1756; and it seems that the dread of Warburton swrath counted for something in the delay of the second volume, which did not appear till 1782 The Essay contains a good many anecdotes ol interest. Warton sedition of Pope the notes in which are chiefly drawn from the Essay-was Published in 1797.
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