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… account from 1812, he made it abundantly clear that ‘he was ready to be hired to any cause; […] he actually put himself to auction to the two contending Parties [and], after several biddings, the honest Mr. Ralph was bought by the … that a writer must be bad, as witnessed by his conjunction of the ‘Cave of Poetry and Poverty’ in the Dunciad . Pope himself is, as a professional and successful author, both transitional for the development of a commercial literary market … petty criticism, and a commercially successful writer who expertly navigated the book market. He did not auction himself out for the highest bidder like James Ralph, but he was not beneath tricking an enemy bookseller into publishing his …
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