Windsor Forest

by Alexander Pope

Windsor Forest Alexander Pope The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Genres: Poetry, 18th Century, Read For School, Classics

62 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1713

About the author

People best remember The Rape of the Lock (1712) and The Dunciad (1728), satirical mock-epic poems of English writer Alexander Pope.

Ariel, a sylph, guards the heroine of The Rape of the Lock of Alexander Pope.


People generally regard Pope as the greatest of the 18th century and know his verse and his translation of Homer. After William Shakespeare and Alfred Tennyson, he ranks as third most frequently quoted in the language. Pope mastered the heroic couplet.

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Reviews

[Jacky Chan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I detest the long 18th century as a literary epoch, but there is something fascinatingly delightful about Pope: the obvious, lavish desire to please and appeal and praise with rounded, architectural rhythms and formes undercut by an equally obvious subversiveness and bitterness and marginality. Really makes you reconsider what poetry is and how it should be read; I look forward to working on Windsor Forest

[Grace · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked this poem, the rhythm made it easy to read despite all the classical references that make it harder to understand. It didn't need to be as long as it was, but overall I didn't hate reading it.

[Dalia · Rating 2 out of 5]

i didi not like this kind of his works


just tow stars

[Nora · Rating 1 out of 5]

one star because i needed a dictionary at all times

[Bree Hatfield · Rating 3 out of 5]

“‘Tis yours, my Lord, to bless our soft retreats,
And call the Muses to their ancient seats,
To paint anew the flow’ry sylvan scenes,
To crown the forests with immortal greens,
Make Windsor hills in lofty numbers rise,
And lift her turrets nearer to the skies;
To sing those honors you deserve to wear,
And add new luster to her silver star.”

Read for British Literature.

3.5 stars. I’m a sucker for flowery, romantic nature poetry. While this isn’t a nature poem in the traditional sense, it’s still a pastoral poem praising the land of Windsor Castle and England as a whole. I loved all of the divine and supernatural metaphors, especially since none of them were christian-based. I don’t quite understand the political commentary enough to speak on it, but the whole poem has a sense of glory and peace to it, so it didn’t feel out of place to me. Overall, very good poem! Much better than some other premodern poems I’ve read.

[Alex Lauff · Rating 2 out of 5]

As of this writing I see little literary value in this work. Sound like a poem I wrote in 5th grade. Yes I am salty that I just read over 400 lines of this.

[Nathanael Chan · Rating 3 out of 5]

no more Pope please i can't wait for the Romantics

[Natalie Kavanagh · Rating 1 out of 5]

no way my uni made me read a poem about a woman's lock of hair being cut off

[17CECO · Rating 2 out of 5]

2 stars! Eat that Pope.

Echoes in Dryden, Pope of the stodgy CW workshop poetics of balance, every line offering the reader something, yarm yawp yarm, etc. Particularly those imagistic lines that represent concordia discors. See the play of color here: "Here in full light the russet plains extend; / There wrapped in clouds the bluish hills ascend. / Ev'n the wild heath displays her purple dyes." Get a little queasy every time I have to read Pope.
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Returned to this to see the ways in which Pope was inverting some of his pastoral images in writing the Fleet Ditch games, particularly those that involve waters and the Thames--what flows into & out of it. Here, empire. Really struck by how self-consciously his landscape is. Compared to the Romantics, its almost refreshing. As in, no one would mistake this for anything but an allegorical wood. Anyway.