CR Episode 165: Pope’s Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

John Arbuthnot, by Godfrey Kneller
John Arbuthnot, by Godfrey Kneller

Download Link: Released on 6 March 2023

The panel reads Alexander Pope’s “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” and discusses its moral and ethical instruction alongside its waspish skewering of eighteenth-century “dunces”, including Colley Cibber, Lord Hervey, and Lady Mary Wortley Montague.