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Lecture. Dean Swift. Mr. E. Charlton Black. Sever...
Lecture. Dean Swift. Mr. E. Charlton Black. Sever...
...Dean Swift...
...this period of Queen Anne's time the four leading literary men were Pope, Swift, Defoe and Addison. The last three represented the prose while Pope was the poet. Pope's life and works were closely intertwined and much influenced by his circumstances. He was born in London, the son of a catholic linen draper, but very early in his life his father retired from business to a small estate at Binfield. Pope's education was of the most miscellaneous character; he received his early training at home and later went for short periods to several schools in and about...
...translation is far from an exact one; in fact a friend remarked to him that he had produced a very good poem but he must not call it Homer's. The translation was, however, very successful, and with his fortune he bought the estate at Twickenham, called by Swift, "Pope's Villa...