Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
… bout of what is now known as Pott’s Disease. If his literary strategies suggest an aspiration towards polite, aphoristic authority, they are at odds with the reality of Pope’s public profile. He was often caricatured as a monstrous creature, … inextricably tied to them, at once more indebted and more vulnerable to the fervour of public discourse than any earlier author had been. The central contradictions of Pope’s literary career are thus closely connected to his significance … ’ Jonathan Swift and John Gay, evolved into defining fixtures within his personal mythology, nourished by the authors’ shared grievances with the political establishment. Other friendships, meanwhile, degenerated into open …
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