Frontispiece and Titlepage of Pope's Translation of Homer's Odyssey, 1752.

Pope was able to secure his finances by work as translator and editor, including an edition of Shakespeare's plays. Pope also translated the Iliad, which provides the context for Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. Shakespeare also profited from his publication of English versions of classical narratives, with Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. Courtesy of the Yorck Project, under GNU Free Document License.