ABSTRACT
The satirist Charles Churchill (1732–1764) ‘was a great admirer of Dryden, in preference to Pope. … He held Pope so cheap … that he had some thoughts of attacking his poetry’ (Thomas Davies, Memoirs of. … Garrick, 1780, i. 325). Extracts from (a) The Apology (1761), 11. 376–87; (b) An Epistle to William Hogarth (1763; written to reinforce Wilkes’s attack on Hogarth in the North Briton, 25 September 1762, which provoked a rejoinder in caricature), ll. 487–506; (c) Gotham (1764), iii. 391–392, 415–422, and a couplet on Pope which Churchill intended to add (Poetical Works (1956), ed. Douglas Grant, p. 538).
