of the
Essay on Man
as a characteristic example of his didactic poetry, and the
Epistle to Arbuthnot
, both for its exhibition of Pope's genius as a satirist and for the picture it gives of the poet himself. To these are added the famous close of the
Dunciad
, the
Ode to Solitude
, a specimen of Pope's infrequent lyric note, and the
Epitaph on Gay