Introduction: Pope on the margins and in the center.(Critical essay)

From: Studies in the Literary Imagination | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Gregori, Flavio | Copyright information

My sole Ambition o'er myself to reign.

([James Miller?], Are these Things So?)

But why then publish?

(Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot)

I. POPE'S PARADOXICAL CENTRALITY

Pope held a singular position in the social, political, and cultural spheres of his age. He was in many ways an outsider and a parvenu, Pat Rogers and other scholars remark, (1) as a cripple, as a Roman Catholic, a member of an illegal religion, and as (perhaps) a cryp...

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