Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
… encouraged in part by his experience of exclusion. Legally barred from living within ten miles of the City of London, he established a home in Twickenham in 1719. This did not entail a total exile from court or from the key venues … 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), p. 17. 2 . Brean Hammond, Pope and Bolingbroke: A Study of Friendship and Influence … Montagu and John, Lord Hervey], Verses Address’d to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace (London: A. Dodd, 1733), p. 5. These lines epitomise Pope’s propensity to ignite broader debates about the nature of …
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