SOURCE: A letter to [John Murray] on February 7, 1821, in The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Vol. V, edited by Rowland E. Prothero, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901, pp. 536-60.
An English poet and dramatist, Byron is considered one of the most important versifiers of the nineteenth century. In the following excerpt from a letter which refutes the points made in W. L. Bowles 's lukewarm introduction to an 1806 edition of Pope's works, Byron acclaims Pope as one of the most prominent and talented figures in English literary history.
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