This volume of manuscripts and transcripts represents the attainable and certainly the most useful part of what was once intended to be a collection of the entire canon of Alexander Pope's surviving poetical manuscripts apart from the translations of Homer.
A line-by-line rendering of the great epic retells, in free-running lines of six-beat verse, the great matter of the Trojan War, Achilles' and Hector's fallible heroism and deaths, and the comings and goings of gods and men.