Dodsley, Robert | Michael F. Suarez (essay date June 1994)
Michael F. Suarez (essay date June 1994)
SOURCE: Suarez, Michael F. “Dodsley's Collection of Poems and the Ghost of Pope: The Politics of Literary Reputation.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 88, no. 2 (June 1994): 189-206.
[In the following essay, Suarez argues that the first three editions of Dodsley's Collection of Poems were indebted to the patronage, editorial style, literary circle, and poetic ideals of Alexander Pope.]
In 1756, Richard Graves published some verses praising his friend Robert Dodsley. One especially laudatory section celebrates the London publisher's great stature in the literary world of his day:
Where Tully's Bust, the Honour'd Name Point[s] out the Venal Page There Dodsley consecrates to Fame The Classics of his Age.
In vain the poets, from their mine Extract the shinning Glass; Till Dodsley's Mint...
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