Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and Men : Collected from the Conversation of Mr Pope, and Other Eminent Persons of his Time

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This compilation of anecdotes, aphorisms and biographical details about his friend Alexander Pope, the most famous poet of his age, was made by Joseph Spence (1699–1768). The manuscript, to which a life of Spence has been added, was not published until 1820, nearly fifty years after his death.