ABSTRACT

W.A., letter dated 29 May 1728, published in Mist's Weekly Journal, 8 June 1728. Pope believed this piece to have been written by ‘some or other of the Club of Theobald, Dennis, Moore, Concanen, Cooke’. E. N. Hooker denies that Dennis had any part in the letter (Critical Works, ii. 516–17). It censures Pope strongly, but even so has some room for praise.