... compositions were less frequently evaluated on their intrinsic merits than on the sponsorship that they were accorded by either Tory or Whig. Thus, Pope's literary career was plagued at its inception by mean-spirited attacks from henchmen of the political and literary establishment (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, where he was able t...

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