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Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) is regarded as one of the greatest English poets, and the foremost poet of the early eighteenth century.

>> No.16646630,1 [INTERNAL] 

His translation of The Iliad is fake and gay

>> No.16646796

That's a neat fact.

>> No.16646932

>>16646630
His translation of the Iliad is great.

>> No.16646979
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>All nature is but art, unknown to thee
>All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
>All discord, harmony not understood
>All partial evil, universal good
>And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite
>one truth is clear: whatever is, is right.

>> No.16647013

>>16646932
boldfaced lies

>> No.16647730
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>The cause, as Frith goes on to explain, is thought to have been that "in a moment of passion, Pope declared his love for the beautiful Lady Mary, who received the vows of the poet with astonishment that resolved itself into irrepressible laughter"
kek

>> No.16648622

>>16647730
I love that someone took the time to paint that

>> No.16649020

>>16646932
what about his translation of the Odyssey?

>> No.16649112

>>16649020
I'm pretty sure he only contributed little to "his" translation

>> No.16649248

>>16647730
I feel that

>> No.16649510

>>16646932
Idiot

>> No.16649582

>>16649510
fag

>> No.16649588

>>16646932
A pretty poem, but please, don't call it Homer.

>> No.16649972

>>16649588
Cringe take

It's more homer than any literal translation

>> No.16649997

>>16649972
>take
go back

>> No.16650158

>>16646932
only Pope could've done it

>> No.16650167

>>16647730
Imagine some deformed clubfooted midget Catholic trying to win your heart in early 1700s England! The audacity!

>Before starting for the East, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu had met Alexander Pope, and during her Embassy travels with her husband, they wrote each other a series of letters. While Pope may have been fascinated by her wit and elegance, Lady Mary's replies to his letters reveal that she was not equally smitten. Very few letters passed between them after Lady Mary's return to England, and various reasons have been suggested for the subsequent estrangement. In 1728, Pope attacked Lady Mary in his Dunciad, which inaugurated a decade in which most of his publications made some sort of allegation against her.

Typical incel shit.

>> No.16650182

>>16650167
I've read some leters Brecht wrote to his mistress. He writes one letter and the next one starts with "Why no answer?"

also, wow, 10 years of seeethe

>> No.16650197

>>16650182
pls respond