“It is a pretty poem, Mr. Pope; but you must not call it Homer.”

—  Richard Bentley

Of Pope's translation of The Iliad — as quoted in The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Eleven Volumes by John Hawkins, Vol. IV (1787), The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, "Life of Pope", footnote on p. 126.

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English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Ca… 1662–1742

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