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Apart from original poetry, Alexander Pope’s works include an edition of William Shakespeare, a translation (1715-1720) of Homer’s Iliad (c. 750 b.c.e.) and (1725-1726) Odyssey (c. 725 b.c.e.), an edition of his personal correspondence, and a prose satire titled Peri Bathos: Or, The Art of Sinking in Poetry (1727). Pope’s edition of Shakespeare is chiefly of interest for the response that it brought from Lewis Theobald, a rival editor of Shakespeare’s plays....

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