Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
… by his contemporaries. People > Art and Literature Keywords Catholicism Celebrity Correspondence Enmity Friendship Poetry Both in financial terms and in the scale of his cultural influence, Alexander Pope was one of the most successful … of poet laureate, despite his crucial role in informing the literary tastes and stylistic conventions of his time. His poetry encompassed esteemed translations of classical works (his landmark Iliad of 1715-1720); mock-heroic ridicule of … and after his return. Bolingbroke and his ideas (both constitutional and philosophical) feature prominently in Pope’s poetry of the 1730s, and he was the dedicatee of the Essay on Man as well as one of the Horatian epistles. In the words …
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