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    Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast
    Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast
    Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast
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    Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast

    By Mr. (Leonard) Welsted and J. V. (Joseph V.) Guerinot

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast - Mr. (Leonard) Welsted

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      Title: Two Poems Against Pope

      One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast

      Author: Leonard Welsted

      Anonymous

      Joseph V. Guerinot

      Release Date: January 9, 2008 [EBook #24199]

      Language: English

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      The Augustan Reprint Society

      TWO POEMS AGAINST POPE:

      ONE EPISTLE

      TO MR. A. POPE

      LEONARD WELSTED

      (1730)

      THE BLATANT BEAST

      ANONYMOUS

      (1740)

      INTRODUCTION

      BY

      JOSEPH V. GUERINOT

      PUBLICATION NUMBER 114

      WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY

      University of California, Los Angeles

      1965

      CONTENTS (added by transcriber)

      Editor’s Introduction

      One Epistle

      Preface

      Text

      Notes

      Blatant Beast

      Text

      Notes

      Augustan Reprint Society

      GENERAL EDITORS

      Earl R. Miner, University of California, Los Angeles

      Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles

      Lawrence Clark Powell, Wm. Andrews Clark Memorial Library

      ADVISORY EDITORS

      Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan

      John Butt, University of Edinburgh

      James L. Clifford, Columbia University

      Ralph Cohen, University of California, Los Angeles

      Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles

      Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago

      Louis A. Landa, Princeton University

      Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota

      Everett T. Moore, University of California, Los Angeles

      James Sutherland, University College, London

      H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles

      CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

      Edna C. Davis, Clark Memorial Library

      INTRODUCTION

      I.

      One Epistle To Mr. Pope, complained Pope to Bethel, contains as many Lyes as Lines. But just for that reason it is not, as Pope also says in the same letter, below all notice. ¹ The Blatant Beast, published twelve years later, is another attack on Pope almost as compendious and quite as virulent. They are here presented to the modern student of Pope as good examples of their kind. The importance of the pamphlet attacks on Pope for a full understanding of his satiric art is universally admitted, but the pamphlets themselves were cheap and ephemeral, and copies are now rare and not easily come by. Both in the comprehensiveness of their charges and in the slashing hatred which informs them (however feeble the verse), One Epistle and The Blatant Beast offer as fair a sample as any two such pamphlets can of the calumny, detraction, and critical misunderstanding Pope endured, for the most part patiently, from the publication of his Essay on Criticism to the year of his death. Welcome for thee, fair Virtue! all the past, (Epistle to Arbuthnot, l. 358) he exclaimed in his role as Satirist.

      It was this public proclamation of Virtue that confused and enraged the Dunces. We have again learned to read satire as something quite other than an expression of personal malice and misanthropy. What the present pamphlets amply testify to is that most of the Dunces were no more able to read satire properly than were Pope’s nineteenth-century

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