Pope's masterful translation of the Iliad, from which he earned £9,000, enabled him to retire in 1719 with his mother (for whom he scrupulously cared until the end of her life) to Twickenham: a neoclassical villa designed in part by Pope himself, where he was able to indulge his love of gardening and to escape from the contumacious atmosphere of literary London. ...

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