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Pastorals
by Alexander Pope
Rhyme scheme	Heroic couplet
Metre	Iambic pentameter
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Pastorals were some of the first poetical works of Alexander Pope to appear in print, when they were published in the sixth part of Jacob Tonson's Poetical Miscellanies on 2 May 1709. However, the Pastorals had been written earlier, in 1704, when the author was sixteen.

References

1. ^ Gordon 2003.
2. Britannica.

Sources

• Gordon, Ian (11 March 2003). "Pastorals". The Literary Encyclopedia. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
• "Pastorals | work by Pope". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 30 March 2023.

Further reading

• Durant, David S. (1971). "Man and Nature in Alexander Pope's Pastorals". Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 11(3): pp. 469–485.

v t e Alexander Pope
Plays	Three Hours After Marriage (1717)
Essays	"Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry" (1727)
Poetry	"Ode on Solitude" (1700) Pastorals (1709) An Essay on Criticism (1711) Messiah (1712) The Rape of the Lock (1712) Windsor-Forest (1713) The Temple of Fame (1715) Eloisa to Abelard (1717) "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady" (1717) Messiah (Samuel Johnson's Latin translation; 1728) The Dunciad (1728–29, 1742–43) "An Essay on Man" (1734) Moral Essays (1731–35) Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot (1735)
Related	Popeswood Binfield Scriblerus Club Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" Heroic couplet
People	Martha Blount John Caryll

• Works by Alexander Pope