ABSTRACT
Henry Brooke, extract from a letter to Pope, November 1739, Corresp., iv. 198–200. Shortly before this letter was written, Brooke (1703–83), the Irish author, had been living near Twickenham. Pope had helped him revise his Universal Passion (1735), but when speaking to Spence in June 1739, Pope remarked, ‘They are quite destroying our language (speaking of Brooke's Universal Beauty and the buskin style)’, Anecdotes, i. 169.
