ENGL 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: William Wycherley, Jonathan Swift, The Dunciad
22 Sep 2018
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Pope was born in london to a catholic linen-draper and his wife. Debarred from university by his religion, he learned greek, latin, italian, and french with the help of a local priest. At age 12, he contracted a form of tuberculosis that left his spine weakened, his growth stunted, and his health permanently damaged. His family moved to binfield, in windsor forst, where at age 16. 1712, and the first volume of his translation of the iliad into heroic couplets followed in 1715. This, together with his translation of the odyssey (1725-26) brought him financial security, and he moved to twickenham, the jacobite rebellion having made catholics no londer welcome in the city center. There he wrote the dunciad (1728-42, revised 1743) a satire on the alleged dull(cid:374)ess of (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:373)po(cid:396)a(cid:396)y (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)e; the (cid:449)ittily a(cid:374)d (cid:449)i(cid:272)kedly sati(cid:396)i(cid:272)al (cid:862)epistle to the d(cid:396).
