... inner ear disease, though no longer in the world, he left behind his views of reformation. The most important poet of the eighteenth century was Alexander Pope (1688-1744), a catholic child prodigy who was of delicate health conditions. Pope's early writings induced envy in other writers, therefore he was lampooned and ridiculed and in an attempt for defense, he turned to satire. In ... 1728 Pope wrote The Dunciad, which attacks dull, uninteresting writers of all kinds and shows the forces of stupidity, ignorance and folly taking over the world. Another of Pope's writings is the Moral E...

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... the new reading public on the homogeneity of the old literary establishment (p 31 Punter). This small number of elite would have included, but not limited to, Fielding, Johnson and especially Pope. However, Fielding and Johnson were slowly stepping outside of the realm of the Augustan limitations. Fielding was undoubtedly Augustan in his beliefs in the stability of social rules and the ... replication. Johnson, on the other hand, was a firm believer in these literary rules and yet it was his "Preface to Shakespeare" which became the first significant breach in these limitations. Alexand...

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