SOURCE: "Pope," in Literary Essays, Vol. IV, Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1897, pp. 1-57.
Lowell was a celebrated American poet and essayist, and an editor of two leading journals, The Atlantic Monthly and the North American Review. In the following excerpt from an essay originally published in 1871, Lowell favorably evaluates Pope's verse.
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