Abstract

The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley, Esq; in Prose and Verse. Vol. II (1729), is an important and neglected document for the study of the canon and the poetical abilities not only of its author but also of its editor, Alexander Pope. It consists of a preface, a carefully annotated reprint of the table of contents to the first volume, a collection of letters between Pope and Wycherley, and a series of poems or parts of poems by the two men. It is extremely rare—the Bodleian copy seems to be the only one in an institutional library—and while large portions have been separately reproduced, no one has pointed out the significant relationships between them and the rest of the volume.

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