"For more than thirty years Pope was so completely the centre of poetical attention in England that he may almost be said to have comprised the poetry of his time. There is no second instance of an English poet preserving for so long a period a supremacy comparable to his. It is possible to defend the position that one or two other versemen of the age did some particular thing better than Pope, though even this requires argument; but it is quite certain that he alone excelled over a wide range of subjects."
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Edmund Gosse, A Short History of Modern English Literature (1898), pp. 207-208
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Alexander Pope
1688 – 1744
englischer Dichter und Ãœbersetzer
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