Walford, E: Greater London, Vol. 1 -

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Résumé :
Excerpt from Greater London, Vol. 1: A Narrative of Its History, Its People and Its Places

Parentage and Birth of Alexander Pope - His Education~ - His Early Admiration for Dryden - His first Essays Poetic E?'usions - Is introduced to Sir W. Trumbull and Wycherley - His Friendship with the Misses Blount - Translates the Iliad - Talces up his Residence at Chiswick - Publication of the Odyssey - Pope's Narrow Escape from Drowning - Publication of the Miscellanies.

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