Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
… Image Sir Godfrey Kneller, ‘Portrait of Alexander Pope’, 1722, St John's College, Cambridge. Abstract As the most celebrated British poet of the early eighteenth century, Alexander Pope … combative poetic mode. Some of his early friendships, including those with fellow ‘ Scriblerians ’ Jonathan Swift and John Gay, evolved into defining fixtures within his personal mythology, nourished by the authors’ shared grievances with the …
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