... from the contumacious atmosphere of literary London. Here, in the companionship of Swift, Gay, Bolingbroke, and Arbuthnot, Pope was granted some respite from the venomous attacks upon his person and character, the history of which virtually makes up the rest of his recorded biography. Apart from a deep attachment to Martha Blount, a Catholic neighbor sympathetic to Pope's aspirations and literary ideals, his ... ...

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