ABSTRACT
Work on the expanded Windsor Forest went on for at least a couple of months and during that time Alexander Pope was not in a perpetual state of intense creativity. When Alexander Pope wrote him a letter in the glacial December of 1712, part of it, as so often happened with his correspondence, echoed the poem he was working on, which had a passage in it about hunting. The Treaty of Utrecht was going to promote the expansion of the British Empire and Alexander Pope ends his poem with a vision of pax Britannica spreading throughout the world. Alexander Pope's Tory poem is one in which he expresses his Jacobite convictions with the least equivocation. Alexander Pope makes the contrast between the peace and liberty a kingdom may expect to enjoy under its rightful and loving Stuart ruler, and the discontent and oppression prevailing under a usurper.
