Pastorals (Pope)

{{Short description|1709 poem written by Alexander Pope}}

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| author = Alexander Pope

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| rhyme = Heroic couplet

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Pastorals were some of the first poetical works of Alexander Pope to appear in print, when they were published in the sixth part of Jacob Tonson's Poetical Miscellanies on 2 May 1709.Gordon 2003.Britannica. However, the Pastorals had been written earlier, in 1704, when the author was sixteen.