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Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
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Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet.  Pope became famous quickly for his use of the heroic couplet and aside from Shakespeare he is the most frequently quoted writer in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.  Pope's most famous works are An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, and The Dunciad.This edition of Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot includes a table of contents.
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Release dateMar 22, 2018
ISBN9781537804613
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
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Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was an English poet. Born in London to a family of Catholics who were later expelled from the city during a period of religious persecution, Pope was largely self-educated, and struggled with numerous illnesses from a young age. At 23, he wrote the discursive poem An Essay on Criticism (1711), a manifesto on the art of poetry which gained him the admiration and acclaim of influential critics and writers of his day. His most famous poem, The Rape of the Lock (1712), is a mock epic which critiques aristocratic English society while showcasing Pope’s mastery of poetic form, particularly the use of the heroic couplet. Pope produced highly acclaimed translations of the Iliad and Odyssey, which transformed Homer’s ancient Greek dactylic hexameter into a contemporary rhyming English verse. His work The Dunciad (1728-1743), originally published anonymously in Dublin, is a satirical poem which lampoons English literary society and criticizes the moral and intellectual decay of British life. Second only to Shakespeare for the frequency with which he is quoted, Alexander Pope succumbed to his illnesses at the age of 56 while at the height of his fame and productivity.

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    Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope

    EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT

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    Alexander Pope

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    Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

    EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT

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    This paper is a sort of bill of complaint, begun many years since, and drawn up by snatches, as the several occasions offered. I had no thoughts of publishing it, till it pleased some persons of rank and fortune (the authors of ‘Verses to the Imitator of Horace,’ and of an ‘Epistle to a Doctor of Divinity from a Nobleman at Hampton Court’) to attack, in a very extraordinary manner, not only my writings (of which, being public, the public is judge) but my person, morals, and family, whereof, to those who know me not, a truer information may be requisite. Being

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