ABSTRACT
Pope's satire on ‘Timon's Villa’ (ll. 99–168) was widely attacked at the time as a satire on Lord Chandos's seat at Cannons, and became an important example of Pope's malevolence and supposed ingratitude. The charge seems to have been fabricated by Welsted, in order to divert Pope's satire from its real object, Sir Robert Walpole's country house at Houghton. Further, see Introduction, p. 19, and the two following items.
