... a height of only four and a half feet, suffered from migraine headaches, was obliged to wear several pairs of hose and an elaborate harness to compensate for the slightness of his legs and the curvature of his spine, and was subject to frequent and caustic ridicule by critics, such as John Dennis, who ... (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 designed in part by Pope himself, wher...

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