Pope dying: from the title page to William Mason's "Musæus: a monody to the memory of Mr. Pope, in imitation of Milton’s 'L

This celebration gives some sense of the prominence of Pope as the leading poet of his generation. Such funeral elegies were commom in Shakespeare's time and appear in many of his plays, such as the start of Henry VI Part 1. See Velma E.B. Richmond, Laments for the Dead in Medieval Narrative, Pittsburg & Louvain: Duquesne University Press, 1966. Courtesy of the Yorck Project, under GNU Free Document License.