Here, in the companionship of Swift, Gay, Bolingbroke, and Arbuthnot, Pope was granted some respite from the venomous attacks upon his person and character, the history of which virtually makes up the rest of his recorded biography. 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,...

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