ABSTRACT
Even before the publication of the first four books of Pope's translation, interest was excited by the threat from a rival translation by Thomas Tickell. The three first items (Nos 25–7) represent this hectic prepublication interest. Since the Iliad is one of Pope's most important contemporary achievements, a wide sampling of the critical response from 1715 to 1728 is given here. Further, see Introduction pp. 12–13.
