 From then on his time was divided between religious duties, which left him ample leisure for continuing his literary work, to visiting friends, and to recurring periods of gout.A facetious poem by his "brother" poet describes one such episode while paying tribute to his version of the "Aeneid".This ambitious translation project, completed in 1740, guaranteed frequent publication of all his poetry for the rest of the century, as well as a biographical preface in Samuel Johnson’s "Lives of the Poets".