Pope and slavery / Howard Erskine-Hill -- Pope's Homer : the shadow of friendship / Hester Jones -- Heroic notes : Pope's epic idiom revisited / Claude Rawson -- From text to work : the presentation and re-presentation of Epistles to several persons / Julian Ferraro -- Ambitious pursuit : Pope, Gay and the life of writing / David Nokes -- Reception, and The Rape of the lock, and Richardson / Thomas Keymer.