An eminent French scholar attacks Pope's view of Homer

Mme Anne Dacier, extracts from ‘Reflexions sur la premiere Partie de la Preface de M. Pope’, l’Iliade d'Homere (2nd ed., Paris, 1719), iii, extra gathering at end. The translation given here, which is somewhat free, is that reprinted in The Popiad (1728), pp. 26–32 from ‘T. Parnell's’ translation published in 1724.