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Anonymous Mon Oct 22 11:24:10 2018 No.11972285 [Reply] [Original]

Is Alexander Pope appropriate for a young audience?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 11:45:57 2018 No.11972351 Was he really under 5 feet tall? I don’t think I can take a man under 5 feet tall seriously desu

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 13:37:03 2018 No.11972640 >>11972351 That's actually kinda bigoted and unreasonable

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 13:42:42 2018 No.11972661 >>11972285 Popeposter just can't accept no one cares about his un-memable irrelevant faggot poet.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 21:30:00 2018 No.11974287 >>11972285 He wrote a book celebrating rape.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 21:37:40 2018 No.11974314 >>11972351 Read Samuel Johnson's preface on Pope

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 21:39:18 2018 No.11974320 I read Pope's Odyssey and The Rape of a Lock when I was 12. I turned out just fine.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 22:10:39 2018 No.11974431 >>11972351 Yes, he was only 4'6 He had a lot of female friends, but never married. The poor fellow compensated by creating amazing poetry.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 22:57:52 2018 No.11974676 >>11972351 Just makes him more down to earth desu

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 23:33:27 2018 No.11974878 >>11974676 Kek

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 23:34:02 2018 No.11974881 >>11972285 his Iliad is based, BASED.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 23 09:39:24 2018 No.11976301 His Dunciad is quite charming