John Dennis attacked one of his works which refers to Homer, Virgil, and Horace, but this author may be better known for a work which makes Lewis Theobald the prince of dullness, as well as another about an incident that occurred between Lord Petre and Arabella Fermor.
About this author's translation of the Iliad, the classical scholar Richard Bentley said, "It is a pretty poem, but you must not call it Homer." This collaborator on the play Three Hours after Marriage with John Gay also wrote a work, whose addendum extols the virtues of the Peace of Utrecht, a long poem called Windsor Forest, and the line "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel" can be found in his "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot." John Dennis attacked one of his works which refers to Homer, Virgil, and Horace, but this author may be better known for a work which makes Lewis Theobald the prince of dullness, as well as another about an incident that occurred between Lord Petre and Arabella Fermor. FTP, name this English author of "An Essay on Criticism", The Dunciad, and "The Rape of the Lock".
About this author's translation of the Iliad, the classical scholar Richard Bentley said, "It is a pretty poem, but you must not call it Homer."
Alexander Pope