SOURCE: "Pope," in From Anne to Victoria: Essays by Various Hands, edited by Bonamy Dobrée, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1937, pp. 89-107.
Auden was an English poet and critic who belonged to the generation of British writers strongly influenced by the ideas of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud; he considered social and psychological commentary important functions of literary criticism. In the following excerpt, Auden offers a general appraisal of Pope's verse.
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