Messiah is a 'sacredeclogue' byAlexander Pope, composed in 1712.^[1] It is based on the FourthEclogue ofVirgil, and is an example of EnglishClassicism's appropriation and reworking of the genres, subject matter and techniques of classicalLatin literature.

Samuel Johnson, while still a student at Oxford, translated Pope'sMessiah intoLatinhexameters. Thetranslation appeared inMiscellany of Poems (1731), edited by John Husbands, and is the earliest surviving publication of any of Johnson's writings.^[2]

• Bate, Walter Jackson (1977),Samuel Johnson, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,ISBN 0-15-179260-7.

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Messiah. A Sacred Eclogue

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