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DOUGLAS-FAIRHURST, ROBERT. ''Alexander Pope: 'renown'd in Rhyme,' '' Literary Milieux: Essays in Text and Context Presented to Howard Erskine-Hill, ed. David Womersley and Richard McCabe. Newark: Delaware, 2008. Pp. 230-257.
This essay is a fine example of what Pope called ''The gen'rous Pleasure to be charm'd with Wit.'' Rhyme is a potential wealth too easily squandered: in the socalled ''Age of Authors,'' an anonymous writer, possibly Samuel Johnson, complained, ''the inclosures of literature are thrown open to every man whom idleness disposes to loiter, or pride inclines to set himself in view.'' Rhyming is better saved for more capable...