Alexander Pope
Life
Born: 21 May 1688
Died: 30 May 1744
Biography
Alexander Pope was an English poet, whose major works include The Rape of the Lock
and The Dunciad.
View the Wikipedia article on Alexander Pope.
Settings of text by Alexander Pope
- Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (George Frideric Handel)
- Awake, my love, awake (John Hare Walker)
- By Music (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
- By the streams that ever flow (Maurice Greene)
- Descend, ye Nine! (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
- Discord dire sister (Samuel Webbe)
- The dying Christian to his soul (Alan Struck)
- The dying Christian to his soul (Vital spark) (William Billings)
- Happy the man (Ode to solitude) (Joseph Baildon)
- Happy the man. whose wish and care (James Oswald)
- Hark how the birds (Henry Lahee)
- I will not faith or love accuse (James Oswald)
- In awful pause (John Wall Callcott)
- Messiah (Oliver Holden)
- O friendship, thou balm (John Danby)
- O you, whom vanity's light bark conveys (John Stafford Smith)
- Ode to Music (Oliver Holden)
- Oh! happy state (Thomas Billington)
- Spring (Henry Hiles)
- The world, my dear Myra (James Oswald)
- Thyrsis, the music of that murm'ring spring (John Sale)
- Turn not, O Queen, thy face away (George Frideric Handel)
- Vital spark of heavenly flame (Edward Harwood)
- Vital spark of heavenly flame (William Jackson of Exeter)
- While fools their time (John Stafford Smith)
Publications
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