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… wits at the Restoration court did what they could to avoid the impression that they were interested in publishing their poetry beyond the fashionable circles through which they spread in handwritten copies. Publishing with a bookseller … equally uses lack of success as an indication 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 …
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