This author wrote a poem for the birthday of his friend and possible lover Martha Blount. The first section of a poem by this author, which Voltaire called “the most sublime didactic poem ever,” asks if “the great chain” is “upheld by God, or thee?” The pamphlet Shakespeare Restored attacked the “many errors” in this author’s revision of Shakespeare. It’s not by Jonathan Swift, but a poem by this author addressed “To a Lady” uses Sappho as a stand-in to attack (*) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. This author wrote a fourth book for a mock-epic that replaced its target of Lewis Theobald with Colley Cibber and follows the goddess Dulness. The phrases “Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?” and “damn with faint praise” are from a poem by this author written as a letter addressed to Dr. Arbuthnot. For 10 points, name this English author of The Dunciad. ■END■
ANSWER: Alexander Pope (The second line refers to “An Essay on Man.”)
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