Pope s education was affected by the penal law in force at the time upholding the status of the established church of england, which banned catholics from teaching on pain of perpetual imprisonment. This ebook pdf format is published by liberty fund, inc. From the book gallery of portraits published london 1833. A reduced version of the twickenham text, and essay on man and other poems dover thrift editions, and more on. The dunciad is popes greatest poem, dazzling, rich and varied, full of complicated symbolic events and personalities. Alexander pope became a freemason a mortal sin in the catholic church.
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