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After entering the school on
October 31,
1728,
Samuel Johnson had rooms as an undergraduate on the second floor above the entrance of Pembroke College, Oxford. But after thirteen months, poverty forced him to leave and he returned to Lichfield.
- Alexander Pope begins writing An Essay on Man. The first three epistles will be finished by 1731 and published in early 1733, with the fourth and final epistle published in 1734. Originally published anonymously, Pope acknowledged his authorship in 1735.
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[edit] See also
- [1] "A Timeline of English Poetry" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
