Pope: Poems: Edited by Claude Rawson (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) Hardcover – 14 Aug. 2018

This is an attractively produced volume of Pope's poetry and an excellent addition to the Everyman Pocket Poets Library.It is indeed pocket size, which means, with the sheer quantity of content, that the font is not large but it makes up for this by having a quite superb selection of poetry [ no prose - so no letters to the Blount sisters or Swift and no Preface to Shakespeare].There are early works, including the very early Ode on Solitude and uncut Essay On Criticism, Rape of the Lock and Eloisa To Abelard, then later poetry, including the first 2 Epistles from the Essay On Man and Epistle to Arbuthnot.However, I think it is a pity that the first edition, 1728 of The Dunciad is included rather than Pope's revised 1743 edition with the Poet Laureate, Colley Cibber as the King Of Dulness, in place of Lewis Theobald. It is a major revision and even a selection from it, as in the little hardback Oxford, intro by Dyson, would I believe be better than the 1728 edition.There are no notes, which effectively makes this volume an attractive additional edition to have. Many readers with an interest in Pope will want the Dunciad 1743 and at least some of the prose and some notes, as in the Penguin edition edited Danrosch or the Oxford Major Works, edited Rogers.So – even with the provisos noted above, I recommend this volume because of the overall generous selection of poetry.