The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Title: The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1
Author: Alexander Pope
Release: 1744-01-01
Kind: ebook
Genre: Poetry, Books, Fiction & Literature
Size: 533242
This is a poetry book. About this time, Pope commenced preparations for the great work of translating Homer; and subscription-papers, accordingly, were issued. Dean Swift was now in England, and took a deep interest in the success of this undertaking, recommending it in coffee-houses, and introducing the subject and Pope's name to the leading Tories. Pope met the Dean for the first time in Berkshire, where, in one of his fits of savage disgust at the conflicting parties of the period, he had retired to the house of a clergyman, and an intimacy commenced which was only terminated by death. We have often regretted that Pope had not selected some author more suitable to his genius than Homer. Horace or Lucretius, or even Ovid, would have been more congenial. His imitations of Horace shew us what he might have made of a complete translation.

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