1. Alexander Pope
... , and the vituperations of the latter poem cannot be understood apart from the contumely which Pope suffered at the hands of his adversaries "Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Lord Hervey, John Dennis, Joseph Addison, and Lewis Theobald, to name a few. Pope's reference in Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot to "this long disease, my life,"" is no literary confabulation but an ... in Jacob Tonson's Miscellany (1709). In 1713, Pope was to find companionship and support in "The Scriblerus Club,"" a Tory brotherhood that included among its principal members Jonathan Swift, John Gay, and John Arbuthnot. Toge...
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- Grade Level: Graduate