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… thereby keeping the stigma of authorly vanity from himself. The publication of his translations of Homer through subscription made him one of the first authors to become financially independent through his pen, albeit not yet by … which made their authors money without resorting to the residual patronage that is still contained in publishing by subscription. Whether he liked it or not, Pope was a part of the literary world, and its economic affordances and demands …
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