Alexander Pope's most striking achievements, a work of authentic power, both tragic and comic is "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" which was written in the eighteenth century. It poem was first published in January 1735. The poem is a satirical poem in which Pope defends his literary career against his critics. He attacks his enemies and rivals, and he offers a portrait of himself as a man of integrity and independence. The importance of hypocrisy and corruption satire has been faced in the poem. The poem also reflects Pope's personal rivalries with other writers, such as Lord Hervey and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The poem, "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" contains four hundred nineteen lines, and it is a Heroic couplets (iambic pentameter with a rhyming couplet at the end of each line). AA BB CC DD is followed in the poem as the rhyming sequences. It expresses, "satire, friendship, fame, criticism, integrity." "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" was first
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