A new exhibition opening this week at the Yale Center for British Art looks at a series of portrait busts of 18th-century poet Alexander Pope by French sculptor Louis-François Roubiliac. “Fame and ...
Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Bathurst" (1733) concludes with the exemplary tale of Sir Balaam. The knight's crooked career ends in disgrace: 'The house impeach him; Coningsby harangues.' An ...