I recall hearing how he had hundreds of hounds in his house (Dogue de Bordeaux, Coton de Tulear, Bouvier des Flandres...

I recall hearing how he had hundreds of hounds in his house (Dogue de Bordeaux, Coton de Tulear, Bouvier des Flandres, and so on) so I set myself on a search for something he said that could constitute a "pooch poem," and here's what I found:

> “I am his highness’s dog at Kew; / Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?” reads an epigram that Alexander Pope wrote in the 1730s and had engraved on the collar of one of his puppies, whom he gave to Frederick, Prince of Wales.

A queer anecdote but important nonetheless. What's your take?

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>A queer anecdote but important nonetheless. What's your take?
How is this important?

Do you not know who Alexander Pope is?

Yeah, but how is this epigram important? Like does it elucidate some some previously mysterious verse of his?
Or would you consider one of his recovered dingleberries "important"?

>Yeah, but how is this epigram important? Like does it elucidate some some previously mysterious verse of his?
Did you just decide to ignore the first half of my post or...?
>Or would you consider one of his recovered dingleberries "important"?
Ok so you're a troll gotcha.

Maynard Mack's Alexander Pope: A Life is a top notch biography.

Exhaustive but excellent.

How does Johnson's compare?

Why is finding evidence for his love of dogs in his poetic works 'important'?

It shines a light on his conspisuous use of dogs in his works. As Gass said, "[Pope] frees the mind by filling our veins with the blood of [dogs]."

Do you not know who Alexander Pope is?

Pope needed dogs to protect him because he was only 4'6". That's what he was particularly fond of large dogs.

I find that commendable. Says a lot about you, too.

It's not my opinion, it's just a fact. After publishing the dunciad pope got lots of threats. He never went for a walk without his dog, Bounce, and a loaded pistol.

Uh the guy who runs the church, right?

Source?

One of them is A.D. Hope's essay "VII Pope and Bounce"

Well, Johnsons Lives of the Most Eminent Something Something's ... is short and sweat.
If I remember it makes some very odd assertions when contrasting Dryden with pope but it's more of a work of criticism, with a few biographical details, then Maynard proper biography.

>Johnsons Lives of the Most

It will also not give you the time and it's politics

That's not important if you don't give a shit about Pope. It's clever but not important. He's implying we're all dogs to somebody or something. Not that important of a statement to me.

sheesh and I thought I was a fag

>He's implying we're all dogs to somebody or something
No man, it was written in dog language. It was a pertinent and banal question to the other dogs, really. He wasn't trying to be clever like you guys seem to imply.