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The Augustan Reprint Society
TWO POEMS AGAINST POPE:
ONE EPISTLE
TO MR. A. POPE
LEONARD WELSTED
(1730)
THE BLATANT BEAST
ANONYMOUS
(1740)
INTRODUCTION
BY
JOSEPH V. GUERINOT
PUBLICATION NUMBER 114
WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY
University of California,Los Angeles
1965
CONTENTS (added bytranscriber)
GENERAL EDITORS
Earl R. Miner, University of California, Los Angeles
Maximillian E. Novak, University of California,Los Angeles
Lawrence Clark Powell, Wm. Andrews Clark Memorial Library
ADVISORY EDITORS
Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan
John Butt, University of Edinburgh
James L. Clifford, Columbia University
Ralph Cohen, University of California, Los Angeles
Vinton A. Dearing, University of California,Los Angeles
Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago
Louis A. Landa, Princeton University
Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota
Everett T. Moore, University of California,Los Angeles
James Sutherland, University College, London
H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California,Los Angeles
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Edna C. Davis, Clark Memorial Library
INTRODUCTION
I.
One Epistle To Mr. Pope, complained Pope to Bethel, “containsas many Lyes as Lines.” But just for that reason it is not, as Pope alsosays in the same letter, “below all notice.”1 The Blatant Beast,published twelve years later, is another attack on Pope almost ascompendious and quite as virulent. They are here presented to the modernstudent of Pope as good examples of their kind. The importance of thepamphlet attacks on Pope for a full understanding