Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
… Image Sir Godfrey Kneller, ‘Portrait of Alexander Pope’, 1722, St John's College, Cambridge. Résumé As the most celebrated British poet of the early eighteenth century, Alexander Pope … more combative poetic mode. Some of his early friendships, including those with fellow ‘Scriblerians’ Jonathan Swift and John Gay, evolved into defining fixtures within his personal mythology, nourished by the authors’ shared grievances with the …
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