Pope's recusancy.(Critical essay)

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

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That Alexander Pope was, throughout his life, a Roman Catholic in a militantly Protestant England is well known: Maynard Mack's standard biography offers substantial documentation of Pope's religion, from his upbringing in a devout Catholic family to his refusal of the considerable social and financial advantages which would have attended his conformity to the Anglican church and his receiving of the Catholic sacraments on his deathbed (Alexander Pope, see especially ...

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