The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope Esq., of Twickenham versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street. Pat Rogers.
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After Waterloo, the British exiled Napoleon, who had conquered most of Europe, to St. Helena—an island so remote and tiny, it can barely be...
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Ciresi, Rita. “Big Feet,” Fast Funny Women, Woodhall Press, 2020. ---. “Bodyguard.” Harmony, 2020. ---. “Fair: 1923.
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THE time is long past when Alexander Pope was identified with his least impressive verse, and having been the eighteenth century's supreme English poet,...
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