Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
… Montagu, who had been one of Pope's closest allies in the 1710s, was by the 1730s being regularly attacked in his satires, and replying in kind. Party politics certainly played an important role in the strengthening of some … or politically neutral comradeship constituted a further provocation for his many enemies. 1 . Alexander Pope, The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated (London: L[awton] G[illiver], 1733), p. 17. 2 . Brean Hammond, Pope and … and Hervey 4) 3 . [Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and John, Lord Hervey], Verses Address’d to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace (London: A. Dodd, 1733), p. 5. These lines epitomise Pope’s propensity to ignite …
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