1. Alexander Pope
Apart from a deep attachment to Martha Blount, a Catholic neighbor sympathetic to Pope's aspirations and literary ideals, his life was a constant endeavor to stem the materialistic current of his times by iterating in polished and penetrating couplets a theocentric humanism which espoused the virtues of self-discipline, the recognition of metaphysical values, and the need for standards of measure and restraint (Adler Internet; Gurney Internet). ...
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