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Alexander Pope

Died in 1744

Alexander Pope was born in 1688 into a Catholic family, which kept him from university and forbade him to live near London. A tuberculosis of the spine contracted in childhood left him four feet six inches tall and suffering all his life. He is one of the few English writers to live off his sales, thanks to the subscriptions for his translations of Homer, and with his earnings he fitted out a villa and a grotto at Twickenham, on the banks of the Thames. He died in 1744.

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