A Guide to the Alexander Pope, Iliad page, ca. 1715-1720 Pope, Alexander, Iliad page, ca. 1715-1720 11030

A Guide to the Alexander Pope, Iliad page, ca. 1715-1720

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Accession Number 11030

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Accession number

11030

Title

Alexander Pope, Iliad page ca. 1715-1720

Physical Characteristics

There is 1 item (1 page of 11) in this collection.

Language

English

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Alexander Pope, Iliad page, ca. 1715-1720, Accession #11030, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This item was purchased by the Library from the Brick Row Book Shop, San Francisco, California, on February 14, 1992.

Scope and Content Information

This collection consists of an one page autograph manuscript, unsigned, from Alexander Pope's (1688-1744) translation of the Iliad , ca. 1715-1720, entitled "The Thirteenth Book of the Iliad." This particular leaf had been heavily annotated and rewritten. The manuscript is enclosed in a slipcase with a steel engraving of Alexander Pope by J.B. Longacre from a portrait by Sir G. Kneller.

Scholars believe that no portions of Pope's original drafts of the Homeric translations are known apart from those in three volumes bound in the eighteenth century and currently in the British Library. This particular leaf is thought to be important as a textual key to the development of Pope's poem because it illustrates his extensive revisions and provides readings that have not appeared in any published version. Since multiple drafts of the same Homeric passage are very rare, if not non-existent, this leaf will provide a unique opportunity to investigate the processes of his revisions.