. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . the Dean—(I lead a heart!)But dearest friends, they say, must time was come; he ran his race;We hope hes in a better place. Why do we grieve that friends should die ?No loss more easy to year is past; a different scene!No farther mention of the Dean;Who now, alas ! no more is missed,Than if he never did exist,Wheres now the favorite of Apollo?Departed,—and his works must follow !Must undergo the common fate ;His kind of wit is out of date. Some county squire to I^intot for Swift i
. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . the Dean—(I lead a heart!)But dearest friends, they say, must time was come; he ran his race;We hope hes in a better place. Why do we grieve that friends should die ?No loss more easy to year is past; a different scene!No farther mention of the Dean;Who now, alas ! no more is missed,Than if he never did exist,Wheres now the favorite of Apollo?Departed,—and his works must follow !Must undergo the common fate ;His kind of wit is out of date. Some county squire to I^intot for Swift in verse and prose ;Says Lintot, I have heard the name ;He died a year ago.— The searches all the shop in , you may find them in Duck Lane:I sent them, with a load of Monday, to the fancy they could live a year!I find youre but a stranger Dean was famous in his time,And had a kind of knack at way of writing now is past;The town has got a better taste,I keep no antiquated stuff;But spick and span I have ALEXANDER POPE. Alexander Pope was born in the year 1688, stunted andfrail of body, was schooled as a Catholic, became enamoredof Dryden as a poet in his twelfth year, and took to poetryhimself. His religion excluded him from the training ofthe universities, nevertheless he was well educated. Asearly as 1709 his Pastorals were printed, followed in 1711by the Essay on Criticism, the finest piece of argumenta-tive poetry in our language. The Rape of the Eockappeared in 1712, a heroi-comical poem, a perfect exam-ple of the burlesque epic. His next poem was WindsorForest, correct in phrasing, but soulless. Pope was by thistime recognized by the patrons of literature, and enjoyed thefriendship of Addison and the foremost writers. At twenty-five he was encouraged by the subscription list to push onhis translation of Homer. The first four volumes, containingthe Iliad, appeared in 1715, and the work was completed
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