Reading Experience Database Browse Reader Readings Pope Alexander

√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1700-1799	" ... [Alexander Pope's surviving books] allow us to be confident about his having read certain works, such as the ess...	Alexander Pope	Michel de Montaigne	essays	Print: Book
	1700-1799	"The books in which Pope's annotations, though scanty, are undoubtedly authentic include a copy of the racy poems of t...	Alexander Pope	John Wilmot Earl of Rochester	poems	Print: Book
	1700-1799	"Pope collected copies of attacks on his own work, and the notes in these tend understandably to the defensive, as in ...	Alexander Pope	John Dennis	pamphlet attacking Pope's poetry
	1700-1799	'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those...	Alexander Pope	Samuel Johnson	London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'What Pope says of desultory Reading in a Conversation recorded by Spence is very happily expressed: that he was like ...	Alexander Pope			Print: Book