Pastorals were some of the first poetical works of Alexander Pope to appear in print, when they were published in the sixth part of Jacob Tonson's Poetical Miscellanies on 2 May 1709.[1][2] However, the Pastorals had been written earlier, in 1704, when the author was sixteen.[1]

Pastorals
by Alexander Pope
Rhyme schemeHeroic couplet
MetreIambic pentameter
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  1. ^ a b Gordon 2003.
  2. ^ Britannica.

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