... . Thus, Pope's literary career was plagued at its inception by mean-spirited attacks from henchmen of the political and literary establishment (Adler Internet; Gurney Internet). Pope's masterful translation of the Iliad, from which he earned £9,000, enabled him to retire in 1719 with his mother (for whom he scrupulously cared until the end of her life) to Twickenham: a neoclassical villa ... ...

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