Newspaper cutting
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 3138421.5.2
Summary
Newspaper cutting kept in the book 'The poems of Alexander Pope. Vol IV' by Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) (record 3138421, all twelve volumes). 'A NEW EDITION OF POPE "Imitations of Horace." By Alexander Pope. Edited by John Butt. (Methuen. 15s. net.) BY PROF . B. IFOR EVANS The poetry of Alexander Pope has probably given as wide and intelligible an enjoyment as that of any non- dramatic poet in our language. He has also been the centre of a continuous and bitter controversy. as a personality he has suffered both from attack and defence.....' Alexander Pope was born to Alexander Pope Senior (1646–1717), a linen merchant of Plough Court, Lombard Street, London, and his wife Edith (née Turner) (1643–1733), who were both Catholics. Edith's sister Christiana was the wife of the famous miniature painter Samuel Cooper. Pope's education was affected by the recently enacted Test Acts, which upheld the status of the established Church of England and banned Catholics from teaching, attending a university, voting, or holding public office on pain of perpetual imprisonment. Pope was taught to read by his aunt, and went to Twyford School in about 1698/99. He then went to two Catholic schools in London. Such schools, while illegal, were tolerated in some areas.