Abstract
Abstract This essay describes a previously overlooked feature of Alexander Pope’s early poetic manuscripts: the erasure of words by scraping. It contextualizes this habit within Pope’s broader practice as a maker of manuscript books for circulation among friends and patrons, and recovers for the first time several previously unnoticed variants in major early poems.
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