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Tag: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

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

6 March 2023 Critical Readings

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.

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