Mandeville and Pope + Epistle to a Lady

A brief list of suggestions about which editions to get for Mandeville and
Pope. 

We've also attached an image of "Laocoon", which was mentioned in connection
with discussion on the sister arts and Lessing.

Also uploaded, a couple of articles on "Epistle to a
Lady".
Click on link given below and enjoy.


1. Laocoon and his sons
2. Lady- Robert Williams
3. Nussbaum -Lady
4. Rape of the Lock & Lady- Chico

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Pope and Mandeville

Pope and Mandeville

Primary texts
Mandeville, Bernard. “An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue” (1714) [including the Introduction]. In The Fable of the Bees, vol. 1, ed. F. B. Kaye, 39-57. Oxford: Clarendon, 1957.

The same edition can be found at the online library of the Liberty Fund. You can search at oll.libertyfund.org. or check the link here-
http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=846&chapter=66837&layout=html&Itemid=27
You can also use the photocopy available at Crystal.

Pope
From Moral Essays: Epistle II. ‘To a Lady: Of the
Characters of Women’; Epistle IV. ‘Of the Use of Riches: To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington’.
‘Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot’.

Butt, John, ed. The Poems of Alexander Pope: A One-Volume Edition of The Twickenham Text With Selected Annotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963.
The same text, based on the Twickenham edition, is also available in other editions by Methuen, Routledge etc. that may be available in the library.

For a general introduction to the eighteenth century, you could read --
Ford, Boris. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. IV, From Dryden to Johnson. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982.

For a general introduction to Pope,
Baines, Paul. The Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope. London: Routledge, 2000.