Volume 26, Number 20 · December 20, 1979
The Powers of Alexander Pope
By Irvin Ehrenpreis
Alexander Pope: The Poet in the Poems
by Dustin H. Griffin
Princeton University Press, 285 pp., $17.50
Alexander Pope and the Arts of Georgian England
by Morris R. Brownell
Oxford University Press, 401 pp., $38.50
Near the source of Alexander Pope's work is an anxiety understandable when we consider his health and religion. As a Roman Catholic in a Protestant nation, Pope suffered maddening penalties. He could not attend a university or hold a civil office. He paid double the normal tax on land, and the law forbade him to reside within ten miles of London. All Roman Catholics were exposed to charges of conspiring against the government.
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