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ROGERS, PAT. "Pope in Arcadia." The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope, ed. Pat Rogers. Cambridge: Cambridge, 2007. Pp. 101-117.
The editor's own contribution to this superb volume epitomizes one of the collection's overarching strengths: the thoughtful use of biography to illuminate Pope's work. In distinctively crystalline prose, Mr. Rogers first "de scribe [s] the literary and biographic elements which helped to form the 'pastoral' basis of [Pope's] early work"; with needless modesty, he...