Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
… more acerbic, 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 … Character of Dr Swift (1733)’, in Hermann J. Real (ed.), Reading Swift: Papers from The Fifth Munster Symposium on Jonathan Swift (Paderborn: Fink, 2008), p. 131-148. As it transpires, such equivocation about the virtues of Pope’s …
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