SOURCE: "Pope as a Moralist," in The Cornhill Magazine, Vol. XXVIII, No. 167, November, 1873, pp. 583-604.
Many scholars consider Stephen the most important literary critic of the Victorian Age after Matthew Arnold. In the following excerpt, Stephen judges the moralistic quality of Pope's verse.
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