Chief Dates in Pope's Life
chief dates in pope's life
| 1688 | Born, May 21 |
| 1700 | Moves to Binfield |
| 1709 | Pastorals |
| 1711 | Essay on Criticism |
| 1711-12 | Contributes to Spectator |
| 1712 | Rape of the Lock, first form |
| 1713 | Windsor Forest |
| 1713 | Issues proposals for translation of Homer |
| 1714 | Rape of the Lock, second form |
| 1715 | First volume of the Iliad |
| 1715 | Temple of Fame |
| 1717 | Pope's father dies |
| 1717 | Works, including some new poems |
| 1719 | Settles at Twickenham |
| 1720 | Sixth and last volume of the Iliad |
| 1722 | Begins translation of Odyssey |
| 1725 | Edits Shakespeare |
| 1726 | Finishes translation of Odyssey |
| 1727-8 | Miscellanies by Pope and Swift |
| 1728-9 | Dunciad |
| 1731-2 | Moral Essays: Of Taste, Of the Use of Riches |
| 1733-4 | Essay on Man |
| 1733-8 | Satires and Epistles |
| 1735 | Works |
| 1735 | Letters published by Curll |
| 1741 | Works in Prose; vol. II. includes the correspondence with Swift |
| 1742 | Fourth book of Dunciad |
| 1742 | Revised Dunciad |
| 1744 | Died, May 30 |
| 1751 | First collected edition, published by Warburton, 9 vols. |