... acidulous satire of The Dunciad. The affirmations of the former poem were not written out of ignorance of human suffering, 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 ... , 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 attach...

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