Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
… own relationship to the social expectations of his time was far from comfortable. A disabled Catholic, who cultivated enemies just as readily and publicly as friends, he was an implausible spokesperson for polite sociability as it was … assertion of disinterested admiration 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), … own relationship to the social expectations of his time was far from comfortable. A disabled Catholic, who cultivated enemies just as readily and publicly as friends, he was an implausible spokesperson for polite sociability as it was …
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