Windsor-Forest was originally written at two different periods in Pope's life and subsequently revised into a single poem. It is a descriptive-reflective poem, derived partly from the model of Denham's Cooper's Hill, 1642, which Dr Johnson described in his 'Life of Denham', as the work that conferred upon him the rank and dignity of an original author. Pope presents us in Windsor-Forest with a series of contrasting scenes rather than a single framed view. Windsor-Forest is the most pictorial of all Pope's poems, the most influenced by his intense interest and involvement in painting. It is a political, patriotic and visionary poem conceived in strikingly pictorial terms. Windsor-Forest stands as a monument to Pope's positive feelings about the age of Queen Anne at an early period in his life, just as, in its very different way, The Dunciad stands as a monument to his negative feelings about the Hanoverian age at a late period in his life.